The Hazard-Herald reports:

"Recently, the Perry County Board of Education has been meeting to discuss COVID-19 policies including the mask mandate. On Dec. 15, the board held a special called meeting to discuss and take possible action on the mask mandate.

"During the Dec. 15 board meeting, school officials excluded individuals from attending the meeting if they did not have identification on them, including the Hazard Herald. The Hazard Herald filed an Open Meeting Complaint under Kentucky Revised Statutes 61.846(1) regarding our exclusion from the Dec. 15 special meeting of the Perry County Board of Education as the school denying access to the meeting for lack of identification is illegal under the state's open meetings law.

"The BOE, in response, provided a recording of the meeting."

We trust the recording came with the Board's admission that it violated the Open Meetings Act and a stipulation that — per KRS 61.840 — "No person may be required to identify himself in order to attend any [public] meeting."

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=42577