The site, www.sos.ky.gov, went through a redevelopment and redesign this past spring. The competition had a record 2,100 entries from 33 countries.
With the redesign, the website now offers information on all office responsibilities, including business services, elections, administrative services, land records, and executive information. The previous website regularly received over 1.5 million hits a month, making it one of Kentucky state government's most popular sites.
The new site also allows easy access to the office's numerous online services and business filing forms. Grayson noted that the office placed an emphasis on increasing online services with the redesign. New services for the office include a summonses tracking system and new land patent database searches for the Kentucky Land Office.
Also included in the site is new business services information including the ability to view and print a reinstatement packet for organizations that have been administratively dissolved and statements of change of registered agent/office and for principal office.
Secretary Grayson announced several new online services since he took office such as online access to several corporate certificates that could previously only be requested by phone was made available, including popular forms such as the Certificate of Existence, the Certificate of Authorization, and the Annual Report form. Last year, access to portions of the Governor's Executive Journal, final copies of enacted legislation of the Commonwealth, and Revolutionary War Patents were made available to the public via the World Wide Web.
The site also contains more information about Secretary Grayson's initiatives, including the nationally acclaimed Civic Literacy Initiative of Kentucky, under a new section entitled "Secretary's Desk." A media center that contains past speeches, articles, photographs, and news releases from the Office of the Secretary of State is also included in the section.
The website was built in partnership with Kentucky.gov, which also built and maintains the Commonwealth's official website at www.kentucky.gov.
The Office of the Secretary of State is entrusted with filing, maintaining and preserving the important documents and records of the Commonwealth and her people. Access to documents not found online is available at the State Capitol Building in Frankfort, KY.
