Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/category/government/page/3/)
A ProPublica analysis found election computer servers in Wisconsin and Kentucky could be susceptible to hacking. Wisconsin shut down its service in response to their inquiries.
Before Hector Fonseca was accused of sexual harassment at work — a claim that an internal investigation did not substantiate — judges had twice issued protective orders against him for domestic violence allegations.
Some Louisville Metro Council members are calling for changes to how the city’s Landbank Authority sells vacant and abandoned property.
Four women claimed they were sexually harassed while working as prison guards at Little Sandy Correctional Complex in Sandy Hook, Kentucky.
The Landbank Authority director will appear before the council’s Community Affairs and Housing Committee on Wednesday, three weeks after a report from the Kentucky Center for Investigating Reporting found nearly a third of the properties sold by the land bank since 2010 were vacant and in violation of the city’s property maintenance code.
Inspectors found exposed wires, leaky pipes, clogged drains, peeling paint, broken doors and locks, missing sprinklers, roaches and more after assessing 26 units at Dosker Manor, which houses nearly 700 elderly and disabled residents.
Judge Phillip J. Shepherd on Wednesday questioned whether protecting names has the effect of protecting public agencies — and making it easier to cover up wrongdoing.
“I grew up in the projects. This is the first house I’ve ever lived in my whole life. When you’re riding down Burnett Avenue, I want you to see the flowers and the solar lights.”
The land bank has sold 316 dilapidated properties for as low as $1 in a program designed to boost struggling neighborhoods. But at least 92 of them are vacant.
The Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting first reported on J. Campbell “Cam” Cantrill III in 2016, when he took a one-year special assignment that paid more than $137,000. The role of “special assistant to the president” of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System was part of a settlement Cantrill signed after a months-long investigation into his workplace conduct.