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Opinion —
OAG 19-017
Request By: Patrick M. Stanley, Grant County Constable Opinion Opinion By: ANDY BESHEAR, ATTORNEY GENERAL; Sarah Ellen Eads Adkins, Assistant Attorney General Opinion of the Attorney General Patrick M. Stanley, Grant County Constable, has requested …
Opinion —
OAG 19-016
Request By: Brian Bayes Carter County Attorney Opinion Opinion By: ANDY BESHEAR, ATTORNEY GENERAL; Marc G. Farris, Assistant Attorney General Opinion of the Attorney General The Carter County Attorney has requested an opinion from this Office …
Opinion —
OAG 19-018
Request By: Bill Lammlein, La Grange City Council Opinion Opinion By: ANDY BESHEAR, ATTORNEY GENERAL; Marc G. Farris, Assistant Attorney General Opinion of the Attorney General You have requested an opinion of this Office concerning whether the …
Open Meetings Decision —
OAG 19-015
Request By: Hon. Stacy Tapke, Kenton County Attorney Opinion Opinion By: ANDY BESHEAR, ATTORNEY GENERAL; Sarah Ellen Eads Adkins, Assistant Attorney General Opinion of the Attorney General Stacy Tapke, Kenton County Attorney, has requested an …
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-169
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Michelle D. Harrison,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Barren County Detention Center cannot provide a nonexistent policy for inspection or copying and its ultimate disposition of the subject …
Robert W. McKinney — Barren County Detention Center
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-168
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;J. Marcus Jones,Assistant Attorney General Summary : University of Louisville violated KRS 61.880(1) by failing to respond to a request for public records for 81 days. The University failed to …
Kenny Jacoby — University of Louisville
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-170
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Gordon Slone,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Jefferson County Coroner's Office did not violate the Open Records Act in its disposition of a request for information on how to submit a request for …
WDRB News — Jefferson County Coroner’s Office
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-171
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Gordon Slone,Assistant Attorney General Open Records Decision The question presented in this appeal is whether the Metcalfe County Judge/Executive ("Judge/Executive") violated the Open Records Act …
Brennan Crain — Metcalfe County Judge/Executive
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-172
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Michelle D. Harrison,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Roederer Correctional Complex did not violate the Open Records Act in denying inmate's request for a copy of a photograph of himself that he …
Robert Short — Roederer Correctional Complex
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-173
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;James M. Herrick,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Franklin County Regional Jail did not violate Open Records Act by not providing nonexistent records. In view of conflicting evidence as to when …
Winston Wright — Franklin County Regional Jail
Opinion —
OAG 19-019
Request By: The cities of Taylor Mill and Edgewood, Kentucky Opinion Opinion By: ANDY BESHEAR,ATTORNEY GENERAL;Laura C. Tipton,Assistant Attorney General Opinion of the Attorney General The cities of Taylor Mill and Edgewood, Kentucky, request an …
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-174
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Sarah Ellen Eads Adkins,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Paducah Independent School District violated the Open Records Act by requiring non-commercial requester to use a preprinted request form. …
Philip Lombard — Paducah Independent School District
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-175
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;James M. Herrick,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Kentucky State Police procedurally violated the Open Records Act by failing to make a timely disposition of an open records request and by …
R.G. Dunlop — Kentucky State Police
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-176
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Gordon Slone,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Inmate's appeal of Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex's denial of his open records was not mailed within twenty days of the denial and is thus …
Matthew Denholm — Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-177
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;J. Marcus Jones,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Fayette County Public Schools violated KRS 61.874(2)(a) by failing to adhere to a request for hard copies of responsive records. Absent proof that …
Edward E. Dove — Fayette County Public Schools
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-178
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;J. Marcus Jones,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Office of the Governor ("Governor's Office") violated KRS 61.880(1) by failing to include a statement of the specific exception authorizing the …
Kevin Bogardus — Office of the Governor
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-180
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;James M. Herrick,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Henderson County Board of Education subverted intent of Open Records Act under KRS 61.880(4) by requiring noncommercial requester to use a …
Philip Lombard — Henderson County Board of Education
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-179
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;James M. Herrick,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Bardstown City Schools did not violate Open Records Act where it did not have the subcontractor bids requested, which were not public records and …
Scott Beck — Bardstown City Schools
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-182
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;James M. Herrick,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government violated Open Records Act by responding untimely and by denying request for e-mails, where no search …
Wanda Wallen — Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government
Open Records Decision —
19-ORD-183
Opinion Opinion By: Andy Beshear,Attorney General;Sarah Ellen Eads Adkins,Assistant Attorney General Summary : Because inmate requester attempted to initiate his appeal prior to expiration of the time frame in which the Fayette County Detention …
Wendell Dixon — Fayette County Detention Center
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