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The Kentucky Press Association sharply criticized the legislation, saying it's unconstitutional and "a broadside attack on the First Amendment."

The Kentucky Open Government Coalition has once again compiled its list of the Top 10 Open Government Stories of the year. In 2021, lawmakers, public officials, public agencies, and a

View Comments LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Jefferson County Attorney’s office says lawyers for The Courier Journal have misstated the record in their fight to get hundreds of thousands of documents from the disbanded Louisville Metro Police Explorer program for youths interested in law enforcement.  And County Attorney Mike O’Connell’s office is asking for permission to file a friend-of-the-court brief defending his office's honor in The Courier Journal's suit.  But Courier Journal attorney Jon Fleischaker says the county attorney should be barred from filing what is known as an am...

Posted By Electronic Frontier Foundation on Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 9:57 AM click to enlarge And the worst offenders of the year are... The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: "Biden is making transparency cool again." This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information — the concept that government documents belong to and must be...

Caitlyn Crites The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: “Biden is making transparency cool again.”  This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information — the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the people — has never not been cool. Using federal and local public records laws, a single individual can uncover everything from war crimes to health code violations at the local taqueria. How awesome is that? I...