Updated: 6:13 PM EDT Apr 8, 2021 WLKY Digital Team Mark Vanderhoff Rumors have been swirling on social media that Kentucky s mask mandate is no longer valid due to a resolution.So, we looked into it and found the facts. The statewide mask mandate to slow the spread of COVID-19 is indeed still in effect. The resolution some are citing is House Joint Resolution 77, which was designed to end the mask mandate while affirming some other emergency executive orders but Franklin Circuit Court Judge Phillip Shepherd issued a temporary injunction blocking it. In his ruling, Shepherd wrote, Until this issue has been resolved, it would create a great public harm and would undermine effective public health requirements to allow the temporary suspension or termination of the Governor’s public health orders. In other words, the mask mandate stands.Republican lawmakers who voted for HJR 77 blasted Shepherd s decision. He has a problem with the legislatur
By Christopher Harris
Commonwealth Journal Apr 8, 2021
5 hrs ago
Somersetâs Sen. Rick Girdler (left) speaks with fellow Pulaskian Rep. Shane Baker (right) outside of the Capitol in January. Baker just finished his first session in Frankfort, while Girdler has served since 2017. Legislative Research Commission
For Shane Baker, it was his first legislative session filling the shoes of fellow Pulaskian Tommy Turner. For Rick Girdler, it was just another go-around â albeit an interesting one â in Frankfort.
Both the rookie member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and the relatively veteran State Senator talked to the Commonwealth Journal to reflect on the recently-concluded meeting of the General Assembly and developments in the courts to hinder key legislative action.
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Gov. Andy Beshear vetoed a bill Thursday that restricts access to public information about judges, police, prosecutors and others.
Senate Bill 48, which won final approval March 30, the last day of the 2021 legislative session, would have imposed new restrictions on the state open records law that a lawyer for the Kentucky Press Association called extreme and unworkable. It s going to be a very serious problem, said Michael Abate, a lawyer for the Kentucky Press Association, which had opposed SB 48.
In his veto statement for SB 48, Beshear called the legislation overly broad and impractical, adding the public safety concerns of the bill are more properly addressed in Senate Bill 267 an anti-doxxing bill he signed into law Thursday.