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Monday, April 23, 2012

Appeals court allows Christian County cops to keep identifying information on police reports secret

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The Kentucky Court of Appeals has ruled that the City of Hopkinsville can "withhold home addresses, telephone numbers and driver’s li...
Saturday, April 7, 2012

Paul objects to FCC proposal to make stations put political advertising information online

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Many elements of the Tea Party have been outspoken in favor of government transparency, but for the U.S. senators most identified with the ...
Friday, April 6, 2012

Harrodsburg police officer stingy with information about fatal traffic accident

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Five days after a traffic accident killed a prominent Mercer County farmer who was driving his tractor, a Harrodsburg police officer refuse...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

Bill that would limit release of child-abuse information appears to be dead with one day left

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A bill that could increase secrecy of child-abuse records at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services  failed to win passage on the next-...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Legislature OKs bill to let county clerks to charge 50 cents a copy, ban scanners, cameras and such

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The Kentucky General Assembly has passed and sent to Gov. Steve Beshear a bill that would allow county clerks to charge 50 cents for a copy...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

Conway says AD district board violated meetings law in dispute between Lewis County officials

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled the Buffalo Trace Area Development District board violated the state Open Meetings Act in using ano...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Senate kills, House revives moments later a bill that would curtail child services transparency

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A bill opposed by the Kentucky Press Association that could increase secrecy at the Cabinet for Health and Family Services died in a Senat...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Cabinet appeals judge's order that it pay civil penalties and newspaper's legal fees

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The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services has appealed a judge's order telling it to pay more than $6,000 in civil penalties a...
Friday, March 23, 2012

Perry judge-executive acknowledges fiscal court sometimes ignores Open Meetings Act

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The Perry County Fiscal Court has acknowledged violating the Kentucky Open Meetings Act by conducting unannounced meetings because, in th...
Monday, March 19, 2012

House passes bill allowing county clerks to charge up to 50 cents a page for copies of any record

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The state House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill that would allow county clerks to charge up to 50 cents per page for paper copies ...

Weekly newspaper conducts open-records audit of local public agencies

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One of the more ambitious Kentucky projects during Sunshine Week , the annual observance that highlights the importance of open government,...
Sunday, March 18, 2012

Open-records requests: One weekly tells how, another suggests its competitor does it too much

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Sunshine Week , which ended yesterday, is designed to increase public awareness of the value of open government and efforts to keep it open...
Sunday, March 11, 2012

Rockcastle County 911 Board failed to prove harm in releasing tape and dispatch log

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The Rockcastle County 911 Board violated the   state Open Records Act by failing to prove that a tape and dispatch log were exempt from d...

Kentucky State University joint regent committees failed to follow provisions of Open Meetings Act

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The attorney general's office has upheld an appeal by The State Journal  of Frankfort and reporter Katheran Wasson that committees of t...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Bill would shield some holders of competitively procured contracts from open-records requests

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A state House committee voted yesterday "to change the Kentucky Open Records Act to make private the records of some organizations doi...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Zambia looks to Kentucky for help in passing a Freedom of Information Act

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Kentucky’s Open Records Act "may serve as a model for one being drafted in Zambia, a longstanding democracy in Southern Africa," ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Press association opposes family-court bill that would set up prior restraint confrontations

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The Kentucky Press Association is opposing a proposal that purports to open the state's family court system but would actually fall fa...
Friday, February 24, 2012

Judge orders Cabinet for Health and Family Services to speed up its release of child-abuse records

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The state Cabinet for Health and Family Services has been given 90 days to release thousands of pages pertaining to about 180 cases of ch...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Policy won't cut it: AG says public defender has to disclose cases she handled in certain time period

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The attorney general’s office recently found that the Department of Public Advocacy improperly withheld records in responding to a request...
Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Judge urges governor to side with openness, says appeal of other judge's ruling is to protect cabinet

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A veteran Kentucky circuit court judge has taken issue with Gov. Steve Beshear's recent opinion piece published in a number of Kentucky...