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When a person decides to enter public life, they give up a bit of privacy.

Opponents say public officials “will simply communicate by means other than their work email” and circumvent records requests under bill.

Why does Gov. Beshear disagree with Attorney General Beshear? What text messages are the governor and his administration trying to hide? Is he selling out Kentucky’s transparency laws to make it easier to seek a national platform? 

The elevator was installed when the Commodore Condominiums opened in 1925 and is thought to be the last manual passenger elevator in Kentucky.

The lead sponsor of the GOP-backed legislation says there wont be any changes to what documents citizens can now get under the states right-to-know statute.

Editor’s note: Jon Fleischaker and Michael Abate are media law and First Amendment experts who serve as General Counsel to the Kentucky Press Association. They practice at the law firm of Kaplan Johnson Abate & Bird LLP, where they regularly litigate Open Records and First Amendment disputes across the Commonwealth. Fleischaker was among the original...

The staff of the Eastern Progress attended the Kentucky Press Association winter conference on Jan. 26, where they brought home 16 awards, including second place for general excellence and multiple

Denied records it sought in 2020 from Attorney General Daniel Cameron about a Ballot Integrity Task Force he co-chairs, American Oversight, a national advocacy group, pressed on.

Open government advocates say Attorney General Daniel Cameron's office is waging a needless legal fight to withhold public records.

Last week, I wrote about an article that the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) published about the University of Georgia football program that was so full of inaccurate information and downright fals...