Kentucky Open Government Blog

The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled today that the City of Owensboro must pay the legal fees of a newspaper reporter to whom it refused to...

The Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled today that law enforcement records are subject to open-records requests even if there is a "prosp...

"Two rulings came this week — one in circuit court, one by the attorney general — that public agencies have violated the state’s open ...

Attorney General Jack Conway has ruled that the University of Kentucky hospital violated the state Open Records Act by refusing to give a ...

Kim Greene, who was one of Kentucky's leading First Amendment lawyers, received the James Madison Award tonight from the Scripps Howa...

Sunshine Week, the annual observance to promote dialogue about the importance of open government and freedom of information, is set for M...

The City of Burnside , in Pulaski County, violated the Open Records Act when it did not respond in writing to a proper request to City Coun...

The Boone County clerk can make a man who requested almost a quarter of a million emails wait six months to get the records, Attorney Gener...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 "...

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 ...

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

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