Annotations for Statute

In this Open Records Act action, the order was reversed in part because the circuit court lacked subject matter jurisdiction to conclude the university violated the Open Meetings Act where neither party invoked the circuit court’s jurisdiction to enforce provisions. Univ. of Ky. v. Hatemi, 636 S.W.3d 857, 2021 Ky. App. LEXIS 114 (Ky. Ct. App. 2021).

Where court found that closed meeting of county board of education had violated the open meetings of public agencies law and declared all action taken at the meeting void and enjoined the board from holding future closed sessions on certain topics discussed at the meeting, the court remained within the authority supplied it by former law regarding enforcement of law concerning open meetings in granting such relief and as long as the board and its members made a good faith effort to obey they would not be cited for contempt. Jefferson County Board of Education v. Courier-Journal, 551 S.W.2d 25, 1977 Ky. App. LEXIS 693 (Ky. Ct. App. 1977) (decided under prior law).

While the coverage of the Open Meetings Act, KRS 61.800, was broad enough to include a police captain’s termination hearing, the police captain did not follow the procedures in KRS 61.846 and 61.848, and so was not entitled to relief. Howard v. City of Independence, 199 S.W.3d 741, 2005 Ky. App. LEXIS 230 (Ky. Ct. App. 2005), abrogated in part, Pearce v. Univ. of Louisville, 2011 Ky. App. Unpub. LEXIS 998 (Ky. Ct. App. Nov. 18, 2011).