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Louisville Changes Public Nuisance Enforcement After KyCIR Investigation
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Codes officials will no longer issue premature violations or encourage landlords to evict their tenants to avoid hefty fines.
Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (https://kycir.org/series/housing-and-policing/)
Jacob Ryan
Andrea Swain's Shawnee home was deemed a nuisance after her 17-year-old son had people over while she was out of town, and someone fired a gun in her backyard.
In Louisville, code enforcement and policing are intertwined as police actions jeopardize some peoples’ housing. We investigate these links.
Codes officials will no longer issue premature violations or encourage landlords to evict their tenants to avoid hefty fines.
Louisville’s public nuisance ordinance is intended to provide a way to bust up drug houses and crime dens. But police and code enforcement officials have been increasingly focused on residential locations where crimes are reported — regardless of whether the victim or the offender lives there.