Metro Council members want an audit of the police department’s record-keeping, after a watchdog group filed a lawsuit claiming the agency improperly destroyed complaints.

The former Vanguard Academy employee was indicted on 10 counts of child abuse. She pleaded not guilty Monday.

The city paid $1.8 million to settle a lawsuit filed by three women who claimed they were coerced into serving as confidential informants and then sexually abused by a Louisville police detective.

The Kentucky Department of Corrections evacuated 117 people held at the Letcher County Jail after intense flooding.

The private contractor operating prison commissaries in Kentucky increased prices by 7.2% on July 1 with DOC approval.

The department lacks clear guidelines for serving arrest warrants in public settings, according to a KyCIR review.

Forty-six people on home incarceration have died since 2017 in Louisville, including seven in 2022 alone, according to data KyCIR requested from Metro Corrections.

A woman's death is putting a renewed focus on the flaws in the city's criminal justice system that harm victims of domestic violence, and allow offenders to avoid accountability.

Despite years of urging by child welfare experts, and even though Kentucky has some of the highest rates of child maltreatment and opioid abuse in the nation, family recovery courts are still not widely available throughout the state

Some troopers downplayed or misrepresented the force they had used. On other occasions, they misrepresented the facts under oath about what they or others had done.