Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/prominence/top-story/)
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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.
We reviewed more than 230 search warrants approved by Louisville judges. It’s unclear who signed nearly three-fourths of them.
Now that the prosecutor has declined to charge the officers who killed Shelby Gazaway, LMPD released the case file.
Despite regularly reviewing fatalities for more than 25 years, Louisville’s domestic violence response remains imperfect. The reviews often raise the same issues, again and again.
Kentucky’s rural post offices are threatened. Over the last decade, more post offices have been closed in Kentucky than in any other state, according to data from the U.S. Postal Service. Closures have hit every region, from coal towns in Appalachia to villages in the open fields of the Jackson Purchase.
The state is required to collect when a person has been overpaid in unemployment benefits — even if it wasn’t their fault. That means some are learning about their state debt only after they’re in need of unemployment again.
As time passes, memories of these tumultuous days will fade, and lead to the perception that accountability is not a priority, according to policing experts and local leaders.
Experts say the coronavirus pandemic is a “perfect storm” for child maltreatment.
The head of the Office of Unemployment Insurance was quietly fired on May 5, amid an unprecedented number of jobless claims, a race to overhaul an archaic computer system and a belatedly-reported data breach.
State data suggest that around 90% of Kentucky students participated in non-traditional instruction. But the definition of participation was loose.