Transparency Under Fire in Kentucky
From Bluegrass Institute:The fight for government transparency in Kentucky never ends.read more
View ArticleJailer ‘subverted’ Kentucky Open Records Act
From The Times Tribune: An open records appeal by Whitley County Sheriff Colan Harrell got a response from the state attorney general’s office dated May 15. And it states Whitley County Jailer Ken...
View ArticleOpen Records on Pension Benefits
It always rankles when someone elected to public office tells the people who put him there that they don't really need to know something about government. It further rankles when people asking for...
View ArticlePeace Corps for Geeks’ in Lexington to focus on more effective, interactive...
Three fellows from Code for America – the “Peace Corps for Geeks” – arrived in Lexington today to begin a 10-month partnership focused on improving neighborhood quality of life through more effective...
View ArticleOpinion: McConnell scores zero in transparency analysis
Let's leave aside whether Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's campaign should be barring the editor of LEO Weekly, or any reporter, from a press event and look at a broader issue. Saturday marks...
View ArticleLouisville Metro Government releases first Open Data Report
Louisville Metro Government has put 71 new datasets online in the past year, bringing the total to 107, a 197 percent increase, according to the city’s first annual Open Data Report released today....
View ArticleOpinion: All work-related MSD messages should be open
It is understandable that former Metropolitan Sewer District Board Chairman James Craig withdrew his transparency challenge after ethics charges against him were tossed aside. The attorney no longer...
View ArticleKentucky: Louisville hackers code for public good
Hackers are not usually associated with the civil sector, but a hackathon organized by the Civic Data Alliance on Saturday brought together coders, designers and non-profits to create data projects...
View ArticleWanted: a Kentuckian who champions the First Amendment and transparent...
The Scripps Howard First Amendment Center at the University of Kentucky is requesting nominations for its annual James Madison Award to recognize a Kentuckian for outstanding service to the First...
View ArticleKentucky high court rules against advocacy group in open-records case
Weighing in on an open-records case involving some of Kentucky's most vulnerable residents, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that an advocacy group failed to qualify for access to...
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