
Kentucky Attorney General’s open records and open meetings decisions issued last seek
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records and open meetings decisions last week: 1. 25-OMD-162 (In re: Christy Shannon/London-Laurel County 911 Communications...

Divided authority and specific facts in Courier Journal v Jefferson County Board of Education may lead to an unexpected outcome
Kentucky Open Government Coalition Courier Journal reporter Krista Johnson examines the arguments in the open meetings lawsuit filed by the newpaper against the Jefferson County Board of Education on...

On learning that the public was purposely excluded from in-person attendance during legislative proceedings
Kentucky Open Government Coalition Keeping with the theme of legislative contempt for the voters who elected theme to public office, today we learned that “during a media tour of...

A word about Bill Estep—whose public records-based reporting proved that the open records law is no mere nuisance
Kentucky Open Government Coalition “Kayden Branham, a toddler who died in 2009 after drinking drain cleaner, was at the Wayne County trailer where adults were using the chemical to...

Attorney General’s open records and open meetings decisions issued last week
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records and open meetings decisions last week: 1. 25-OMD-157 (In re: Rob Mattheu/Oldham County Fiscal Court...

Scraped, Swarmed, and Still Serving
Kentucky Open Government Coalition A recent study by the GLAM-E Lab titled “Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?” has confirmed what many open-access libraries, including our Sunshine Library,...

Kentucky Attorney General’s open records decisions issued last week:
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records decisions last week: 1. 25-ORD-148 (In re: Elbert Long/Kentucky State Reformatory) Summary: The Office...

Kentucky Attorney General’s open records decisions issued last week
Kentucky Open Government Coalition The Kentucky Attorney General issued the following open records Devon’s last week: 1. 25-ORD-144 (In re: Jason O’Bannon/City of London Summary: The City of London...

HB 520 takes effect on June 27–get your requests for investigative records in now!
Kentucky Open Government Coalition Get those open records requests in NOW for investigative files in open cases! On and after midnight June 27, 2025, your right to access records...

Trouble Looms If Congress Passes the Buck to the Kentucky State Budget
Republished from Kentucky Center for Economic Policy Congress is considering huge cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, energy and higher education in an attempt to pay for just a portion of...