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Why Kentucky Court Records are Available to the Public?
In 1976, the Kentucky State Legislature passed a law named the Kentucky Open Records Act. This law is for the last changes in 1994 and aims to make sure disclosure of court records and other public records to the public.
What Court Records Access Means To You?
The law is similar to the Kentucky Open Meetings Act which conducts the methods for public meetings. These meetings are held by the Kentucky Open Records Act is a series of laws designed to guarantee that the public has access to public records of government bodies at all levels in the state of Kentucky, statutes KRS 61.870 to 61.884 define the law.
Accountability to the Public
When the legislature enacted Kentucky Open Records Act, it expressively declared that access to information about the conduct of the people’s business, work of government bodies at any level is a fundamental and necessary right of every person in this state, The Kentucky Open Records Act.pdf. Indeed, in Idaho, access to the government and court records, in particular, has a fundamental interest in citizenship and has emphasized that maxim disclosure of the conduct of governmental operations [is] promoted by the act. By promoting prompt public access to government records, the Idaho Public Records Act is to safeguard the government's accountability to the public.
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