Open Government

WKMS’ request identified a handful of specific officials whose emails it sought, a narrow time frame for the search and an even narrower search topic.

Harris was on the front lines of the battle to expose Utility Management Group, a publicly funded “private entity,” to the light of public scrutiny.

The Court invoked the seminal 1803 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Marbury v. Madison, in expounding on the proper role of the courts in interpreting laws enacted by the General Assembly.

The frustration for reporters and the public, thus far, has been an inability to correlate the records documenting flights in the KSP jet to specific destinations and associated events at those destinations.

The open records law does not exempt the Kentucky Retirement Systems or the Teachers Retirement System (except with respect to member account information). There is, therefore, something colossally offensive about their resistance to the idea that they should not be held to the same standards of transparency and accountability as all other public agencies.

Kentucky Retirement Systems, Teacher Retirement Systems and Judicial Form Retirement System are out of compliance with Senate Bill 2, a 2017 law that requires great transparency in the state’s pension agencies, State Auditor Mike Harmon said.

The sunshine laws that protect the public’s right to know how government agencies make decisions face potential serious threats.