Government

From the Office of the Kentucky Secretary of State

Alison Lundergan Grimes, Secretary of State and Chief Election Official, is notifying the public that the State Board of Elections has approved and filed an emergency administrative regulation prohibiting electioneering within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling place on Election Day. The emergency administrative regulation, which is effective immediately, does not apply to private property.

It looks like Countryside-River Bluff Fire Protection District and North Oldham Fire Protection District have put aside their differences and have decided to go ahead with a merger.

As per a public notice in the Era, the trustees of Countryside-River Bluff and NOFD have filed a Joint Merger Petition with Oldham County Judge-Executive David Voegele to move Countryside with and into NOFD.

The board of trustees of NOFD approved the merger on March 23 and the board of Countryside-River Bluff approved it on Feb. 23.The merger will take place June 1.

Congressmen Thomas Massie, R-KY, and Mark Pocan, D-WI, have introduced the Surveillance State Repeal Act, H.R. 1466, legislation that would repeal several federal mass surveillance laws enacted in the 2001 Patriot Act.

The bill falls just short of full-scale repeal, though goes after the heart of the act by targeting controversial provisions, several of which are already up for renewal by Congress this year.

Senator Ernie Harris (R-Prospect) welcomed Emma DuVall to the Capitol. Emma served in the Senate as a Legislative Page. She is a fifth grade student at LaGrange Elementary School.