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Tennessee Press will travel north for joint summer convention in Northern Ky.

For those of you thinking “it’s about time,” well, you’re right. The Tennessee Press Association will bring its members to Kentucky for a joint summer convention next month in Northern Kentucky.

It’s time for the Tennessee folks to reciprocate since Kentucky newspapers have traveled to Gatlinburg twice in the past six years. And, for those of you who really like to plan ahead, we’re going back to Gatlinburg for the 2002 KPA Summer Convention.

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Boot Camp Slots Filling up fast

If you plan on attending or sending someone to the KPA Journalism Boot Camp, you better hurry. Slots for the camp are going fast.

The three-week session, dubbed a “boot camp” because of the intensive training over a relatively short period, is designed to provide additional training for inexperienced newsroom employees or allow newspapers to hire a person from the community who has potential, but no journalism background. It’s limited to the first 20 to sign up and pay registration fees.

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More Papers making switch to 50" web

By mid-April, one-third of all Kentucky newspapers had made the switch to a 50-inch web.

The list includes all Landmark Community Newspapers who switched to the smaller web size on April 1.

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Agencies' cite exemptions to Open Records Act too frequently

Every once in awhile questions to the Hotline come in clumps. Over the last couple of months we have received several questions about agencies which have denied records requests on the basis of exemption (h), the so-called law enforcement exemption. It seemed, therefore, a good topic for this month's column. And then along came the Attorney General's very timely open records decision concerning Lt. Gov. Steve Henry.

Very recently, the Attorney General decided that the Cabinet for Health Services violated the Open Records Law when it denied several requests for records of Medicare and Medicaid payments to Lt. Gov. Steve Henry. The Cabinet said it couldn't turn over those records because a federal grand jury was investigating matters related to those payments to Henry, an orthopedic surgeon. Since Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e) makes grand jury proceedings secret, both exemption (h) and exemption (k) (allowing a state agency to withhold records when federal law prohibits disclosure) justified the denial, according to the Cabinet.

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