Investigations

Jonathan S. Ricketts is an attorney and former chair of the city’s ethics commission and has led several high-profile investigations for the Metro Council in recent years.

For many, the findings of the U.S. Department of Justice report detailing a pattern of abuses by Louisville police are no surprise. Now, the focus turns to reform, but some are apprehensive about trusting the process.

Federal investigators found the Louisville Metro Police Department has an extensive pattern of violating civil rights, conducting unlawful searches and discriminating against Black people and people with behavioral health disabilities.

Louisville Metro Council will hire an attorney to decide if Council Member Anthony Piagentini violated ethics rules because no council member wanted to file a formal complaint against him.

The Kentucky State Police have settled a federal lawsuit involving two troopers who beat Alex Hornback at his Shepherdsville home during an April 2020 arrest and allegedly lied about it under oath.

Several women accused Brian Bailey of sexual abuse, two internal police investigations determined the complaints were credible, but local prosecutors say he shouldn't face the felony sodomy charge.

Dozens of residents and community leaders gathered Tuesday evening to voice concerns and share their ideas for how to reduce violence in Louisville.

Ethics officials said they were puzzled by a Metro Council resolution asking them to review council member Anthony Piagentini’s involvement in a $40 million grant the council gave a local nonprofit.

Residents and some Letcher County officials say FEMA’s strict regulations about debris removal and infrastructure repair have left large piles of debris and unfinished work throughout Appalachian eastern Kentucky and may have contributed to the damage last weekend.

An emergency resolution filed Thursday asked the city’s ethics commission to review the behavior of Council Member Anthony Piagentini, who pushed for $40M in grant funding for a nonprofit that was recruiting him for a job and later hired him.

A new bill easing some of last year’s changes to Kentucky unemployment system passed out of a legislative committee.

A Louisville Metro Council member helped a local nonprofit get a $40 million COVID-19 relief grant. Then, the group gave him a job.