Environmental Matters in the Commonwealth of Kentucky

According to Federal Computer Week, The Treasury Department has won the 2008 Rosemary Award, an annual citation that an open-government group gives to the federal agency it says responds most poorly to Freedom of Information Act requests.  The award is the fourth of its kind that has been given out by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, a research institute and library that has filed about 35,000 FOIA requests since its inception in 1985. The CIA and the Air Force are past winners of the award, named after Rose Mary Woods, the late Nixon secretary who testified that she inadvertently erased several minutes of audiotapes containing secret recordings of Oval Office conversations. The link for the announcement is http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151959-1.html.  Perhaps the National Security Archive ought to send a Open Records Act request to a Kentucky agency and see how Kentucky compares to federal agencies.