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Monday, December 31, 2012

UK has pediatric heart program under review, won't talk about it or release key records

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Kentucky Children's Hospital at the University of Kentucky is reviewing its cardio-thoracic surgery program and referring surgical pa...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Sun gives police letter alleging schools' laxity about weapons, but honors request for anonymity

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A newspaper in a Kentucky county that had one of the first mass school shootings gave police a letter it received from a student alleging l...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Illinois' anti-eavesdropping law can't be used against those who record police, high court says

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The U.S. Supreme Court has let stand an appellate-court ruling in Illinois that "The state's anti-eavesdropping law violates free-...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

Judge rules U of L's hospital is public and subject to Open Records Act; it may appeal

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The University of Louisville 's hospital is a public entity, a Jefferson Circuit Court judge has ruled in a lawsuit filed to get access...

Federal judge keeps ban on contacting jurors but will contact them on behalf of Herald-Leader

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U.S. District Judge Greg Van Tatenhove is allowing the Lexington Herald-Leader to contact certain jurors in the groundbreaking case of kid...
Friday, October 19, 2012

AG: Cabinet hid too much information from Inez newspaper about case of 2-year-old who died

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Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that the state Cabinet for Health and Family Services violated the Open Records Act by withholdi...
Tuesday, October 2, 2012

AG says Danville solons broke open-meeting law by deciding secretly to buy a building

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UPDATE, Oct. 23: The city has appealed the decision to Boyle Circuit Court, The Advocate-Messenger reports . The City of Danville violat...

Mount Olivet violated both open-meetings and open-records laws, attorney general rules

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By Taylor Moak The Mount Olivet City Council violated the Kentucky open meetings and open records acts in its actions surrounding specia...
Monday, August 20, 2012

Judge closes hearing in case involving mother accused of sexualizing 6-year-old at pageants

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A judge in Campbell County closed a hearing in a high-profile child custody case Saturday and put a gag order on the mother, who had "...
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Thursday, August 16, 2012

Hustonville officials refuse to release text of proposed ordinances after first reading

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Here's one we've never heard before: A city refusing to provide the text of proposed ordinances on which its city council has held ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Judge tells Owensboro police to give newspaper records of probe into public information officer

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Daviess Circuit Judge Joe Castlen ruled Monday that the Owensboro Police Department must give the Messenger-Inquirer newspaper records...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Editor, lawyer say open-government laws being obeyed more, but the battle will never end

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By Al Cross Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues Public officials in Kentucky are doing better at obeying open-government...
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...