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The Federal Communications Commission capped rates on phone calls from prisons at .14 cents a minute in rules that became final in September.
Louisville Metro Police records filed with court officials provide new details in the murder investigation of 16-year-old Tyree Smith, who was killed in the early morning hours of Sept. 22nd while he waited for his school bus.
Louisville portrayed itself as a police department that would show the rest of the country how to reform. That facade came crumbling down in 2020.
State attorneys arguing that police don’t need a search warrant to track a person’s location in real-time through their cell phone were met with skepticism from the Kentucky Supreme Court on Wednesday.
Police in Louisville and across the country are using controversial warrants to collect cell user data from people who were nearby crimes in hopes of pinpointing suspects.
Current and former jail staff testified that Tracy Dotson has benefited from a culture of enforced loyalty and a contract which makes it difficult for jail management to hold bad actors accountable.
The students wait before sunrise for the bus at a corner with no streetlights. On Wednesday, one was killed in a drive-by shooting.
The sheriff says seized cash is a tremendous asset for the agency and has taken millions in recent years, often without a criminal case.
The Shelby County Detention Center isn’t offering remote hearings, leaving people with COVID without the chance to post bail or participate in their case.
More than 10,000 people are currently held in Kentucky prisons, and nearly 8,000 have gotten the coronavirus since the pandemic began.