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Since 1976, Kentucky’s open records law has been used countless times at all levels of government, by reporters and ordinary taxpayers, from the governor’s office in Frankfort to school boards ...
Open records legal expert: “It’s easily the most anti-transparency piece of legislation that I’ve seen advanced in the state in the last 10 years.”
The Herald-Leader recently filed an open records request for messages on personal and private devices between the legislature and three of Beshear’s top staffers regarding House Bill 509.
For example, Colorado has the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA); [11] in New Jersey the law is known as the Open Public Records Act (OPRA). [12] There are many degrees of accessibility to public records between states, with some making it fairly easy to request and receive documents, and others with many exemptions and restricted categories of ...
The Holder Memo is part of series of policy memos on how federal agencies should apply FOIA exemptions. Beginning in 1977 with Attorney General Griffin Bell, and continued by Attorney General William French Smith in 1981 and Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced how the executive branch should approach FOIA, its application, and DOJ's defense of ...
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
OpEd: Rep. John Hodgson’s decision to “revise” and “overhaul” HB 509, a bill that would eviscerate the open records act, came after bipartisan criticism.
The Kentucky State Police (KSP) is a department of the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the official State Police force of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, responsible for statewide law enforcement. The department was founded in 1948 and replaced the Kentucky Highway Patrol.