Amye Bensenhaver
Amye is a retired assistant AG who specialized in open records laws. She is the co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. (Read the rest of her bio on the Contributors page.)
A personal connection to Jimmy Carter by a ForwardKY writer
Our small world got a little bit smaller.
Three open-records issues as a result of a misleading headline
If we value our access to what our government is doing, we need to pay attention to these ongoing concerns.
To thwart records requests, LMPD used app to automatically delete messages
Are any other state or local agencies doing the same thing?
Live out of state? Our ‘open records’ are closed to you.
Want to look at nursing home inspection records for your aging Kentucky mother? Too bad – our lawmakers won’t let you.
This time, the Open Records law worked as intended
It was interpreted objectively, free of politics, prejudice, and passion.
SCOKY provides long-overdue course correction to law enforcement and open records
The balance between the right of law enforcement to keep records confidential in certain instances, and the right of the public to know what their police forces are doing, has been restored.
WKU finally follows the open-records law
A nine-year saga appears to finally be coming to an end.
What do you mean, the fiscal note is ‘confidential’?!?
Another example of the secrecy surrounding so much of what is done in Frankfort.
A political tempest in an open-records teapot
But in the end, it’s abused children that are being harmed
The ‘thin hull’ of our flagship university
The University of Kentucky has an ongoing history of thumbing its nose at the open records laws. But they get snippy when called on it.
JCPS task force ignores obvious meaning of open meetings law
The work affects parents in Louisville – but the meetings are in Frankfort.
UK continues its anti-transparency tradition
The university’s motto: “That’s for us to know, and you to never find out.”
Swim coach scandal reveals value of open records
UK wasn’t forthcoming about their swim coach and the allegations against him – so John Cheves of the Herald-Leader used our open records laws to get at the truth. Without those laws, it would all still be a secret.
Hiding the public’s business isn’t just a Kentucky problem
Apparently, officials at all levels try to keep what they are doing a secret.
