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Monday, February 15, 2016

A balancing of interests

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Like so much else in the law, the Kentucky Open Records Act is an example of when a balancing of interests must occur. The goal of the stat...
Thursday, December 31, 2015

Reviewing Ky.'s open records, meetings laws

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Editor's Note: I generally don't write these posts in the first person, but I thought one post doing so wouldn't hurt. The end...
Monday, December 21, 2015

The ending of one's term, and the beginning of another's

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In January, Kentucky will have a new attorney general when Andy Beshear takes office. ( See a recent article by The State Journal in Frankfo...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Application of state law to public universities

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Kentucky has nine publicly supported institutions of higher learning. ( See  http://cpe.ky.gov/institutions/) As recipients of state fun...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Procedural violations of Ky.'s open records act

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A public agency can violate Kentucky's open records act in a variety of ways, some substantive and some procedural. This post will focus...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Not letting the exceptions swallow the rule

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Under Kentucky's open records law, the basic policy "is that free and open examination of public records is in the public interest....
Friday, August 21, 2015

Defining 'public agency' under Kentucky's open meetings, records laws

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One of the issues that can arise under the state's open meetings and open records laws is that an entity can claim that it is not a publ...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

Keeping an eye on Kentucky's public agencies

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The aim of this blog is to provide citizens of Kentucky with analysis of open meetings and open records decisions by the state's attorne...
Monday, September 8, 2014

UK properly denied certain requests by CNN,
but it erred in denying others

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The University of Kentucky properly denied certain requests from CNN relating to the university’s pediatric cardiothoracic program, but it ...

An Open Meetings Act violation must occur
before the attorney general can address it

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The attorney general will not address a violation of the Open Meetings Act that is anticipated but has not occurred, according to an August...

State violated Open Records Act
with conditional use agreement

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The Cabinet for Health and Family Services violated the Open Records Act by making the release of information requested by USA TODAY condi...

Judge's entry and exit from county parking garage not subject to Open Records request

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The Kenton County Fiscal Court did not violate the Open Records Act by redacting the times of entry and departure of a judge from a county ...