Criminal Justice
Jefferson County Judges Reject Rules To Increase Search Warrant Transparency
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The judges met confidentially Tuesday and didn’t answer questions about the vote until Friday afternoon.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/category/criminal-justice/page/2/)
The judges met confidentially Tuesday and didn’t answer questions about the vote until Friday afternoon.
Court officials are saying their meeting, and minutes from that meeting, are confidential.
The proposal would overhaul the court’s process for issuing search warrants with the aim to boost transparency.
The LMPD made the change shortly after KyCIR and WDRB reported the state issued the new forms — and LMPD wasn’t using it.
As protests continued in Louisville, criminal justice leaders discussed what reform measures they’d lobby for. The police and prosecutors often weren’t on board.
Law enforcement agencies in Kentucky have a new way to bring more transparency to the process of obtaining a search warrant, but police in Louisville aren’t using it.
Tammy Riggs was at work when she got an alert on her phone from a local news station about a police shooting. She watched the station’s live video stream for hours. “And I didn’t know it was my son,” she said.
Usually, when LMPD kills someone, families are left entirely in the dark about how the police are handling the case, an investigation by Newsy and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting found.
When a judge ordered Brett Hankison not to possess any guns, it was up to him to give them up.
Louisville is engulfed in protests and has been all summer long. In that time, Louisville Metro Police have arrested at least 46 people for burglary charges and deemed them to be connected to the protests, according to data provided by the Louisville Metro Police Department.