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Friday, September 16, 2011

AG declares Pike utility's records open

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The records of a controversial utility in Eastern Kentucky are covered by the state Open Records Act "because two public agencies suppl...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

AG again says Health and Family Services Cabinet violated Open Records Act

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The attorney general's office has again cited the Cabinet for Health and Family and Services for failing to following the dictates of t...

Foes of law letting optometrists use lasers may sue, alleging violation of Open Meetings Act

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Although ophthalmologists and the Kentucky Medical Association strongly objected, a legislative committee appoved regulations Tuesday that ...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Hopkinsville paper publishes public officials' pay, makes readers aware of records

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Many Kentuckians are not aware they can file open-records requests to obtain information they are entitled to see, such as salaries of publi...
Monday, September 12, 2011

AG rules Carter County Fiscal Court violated open meetings law by restricting recording

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A Carter County Fiscal Court 's resolution to restrict cameras and video recording of fiscal court meetings to the last pew of the fisca...
Saturday, September 10, 2011

C-J, ACLU ask Conway to decide if Louisville's University Hospital is a public agency

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Attorney General Jack Conway has been asked to decide "whether University Hospital is a public institution — an issue in the controvers...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

News outlets are less inclined to take legal action for open government, but citizens are becoming more active, national survey finds

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"While a lack of resources has made news organizations increasingly less inclined to file freedom-of-information lawsuits, citizens hav...
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

U of L physicians' group drops open-records appeal, but C-J may still not get records

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An organization representing University of Louisville doctors who were trying to keep their financial records private dropped its lawsuit a...
Monday, August 22, 2011

Series on questionable disability payments in Lexington led to closure of records involved

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Sometimes journalism based on public records prompts government officials to hide the records to prevent further journalism about them. In...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Kentucky looks like only state that denies access to recordings made by police-cruiser cameras

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Kentucky appears to be the only state that denies public access to recordings made by cameras in police cruisers. Scott Wartman of The Kentu...
Sunday, July 24, 2011

Judge closes evidentiary hearing in Todd murder case; newspaper seeking child-welfare records

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Todd Circuit Judge Tyler Gill has sealed the case record and barred journalists from a continuing hearing in the murder case of a 9-year-old...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Louisville school-bus fight tape is open record

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that a videotape of an assault on a Jefferson County Public Schools bus driver by a parent is a publ...
Monday, July 11, 2011

AG again finds KSP violated Open Records Act

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Attorney General Jack Conway, the state's chief law-enforcement officer, has again found the Kentucky State Police , the state's mai...
Monday, June 6, 2011

Newspapers push fight against state cabinet

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The state's two largest newspapers wasted no time in pushing their case for a judicial order forcing the Cabinet for Health and Family S...
Thursday, June 2, 2011

Federal judge rules for newspapers, returns fight over child death records to state court

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A federal judge has ruled against the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in its continuing battle with two Kentucky newspapers over th...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Agencies told their forms are improper

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The office of Attorney General Jack Conway issued two opinions last week criticizing public bodies for denying records inappropriately. The ...
Friday, May 27, 2011

Inmates lose open-records requests

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The Attorney General’s office has upheld the denial of records in two separate cases involving inmates in state prison, ruling the requested...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011

State high court makes clear that contempt proceedings against jurors must be public

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In a ruling that could clear up what it called "continuing confusion" among Kentucky judges, the state Supreme Court has ruled una...

City must give plaintiff contracts, personnel files

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A city-owned arena can't refuse to release information about its contracts and personnel just because that might put it and its contract...
Monday, May 2, 2011

AG says Adair County hospital board violated open-meetings law , as newspaper alleged

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Adair County Hospital 's board of directors was wrong to hold a closed-session discussion about the future of an interim CEO because the...