Amye Bensenhaver is a retired assistant attorney general who, for twenty-five years, specialized in Kentucky’s open records and meetings laws. She is the co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition.
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records and open meetings decisions last week: 1. 25-ORD-102 (In re: Olivia Tipton/Oldham County School District) Summary:...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records and open meetings decisions last week: 1. 25-ORD-096 (In re: David McAnally/Kentucky Horse Racing and...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General recently issued an open meetings decision in an appeal pitting James Orlick against the House Standing Committee on Postsecondary Education. In...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition UofL’s new President, Gerry Bradley, carries a heavy burden as the most recent in a series of transient office holders at a university that “has...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records decisions this week: 1. 25-ORD-073 (In re: Darcie Davis/Morgan County Fiscal Court) Summary: The...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition In 2009, The Owensboro Messenger Inquirer experienced the frustration that University of Louisville stakeholders and others, as well as the media, are currently experiencing. In...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition On March 27, Governor Beshear permitted House Bill 520, “AN ACT relating to law enforcement records,” to become law without his signature. https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25rs/hb520.html https://www.kentucky.com/news/politics-government/article302913014.html It...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Kernel moved one step closer to a decision in its open records dispute with the University of Kentucky on March 25 as attorneys...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition A footnote to the 2025 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly — but emblematic of lawmakers’ dismissive attitude toward open meetings and public participation...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The following open records decisions were issued by the Kentucky Attorney General last week: 1. 25-ORD-064 (In re: Eric Ribenboim/Louisville Metro Government) Summary: Louisville Metro...
