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Justin HicksAfter nearly every federally declared disaster, large, politically connected companies swoop in and secure lucrative cleanup contracts. Last year's flooding in eastern Kentucky was no different. Researchers and federal investigators have flagged these contracts as rife with opportunities for fraud and wasteful spending. -
Lily Burris/KyCIRFederal disaster assistance can be offered to individuals through the Small Business Administration, but many eastern Kentuckians recovering from the July 2022 floods don’t qualify. And many who do are hesitant to take on the loan.
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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. -
A pair of disaster response firms have challenged the $23.7 million contract awarded to Texas-based DRC Emergency Services, claiming the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated federal purchasing rules and stifled competition by failing to solicit quotes from other companies.
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State attorneys argued Wednesday that police don’t need a search warrant to track a person’s location in real-time through their cell phone.
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More than 10,000 people are currently held in Kentucky prisons, and nearly 8,000 have been infected with the coronavirus since the pandemic began. This infection rate of nearly 80% is among the worst nationally, according to a new report by the advocacy group Prison Policy Initiative.
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The state has approved about a third of debt waiver requests — and most people can’t even apply.
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In a record year for overdoses, young Kentuckians experienced the highest increase in deaths.
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The Kentucky State Police fatally shot 41 people from 2015 through 2020, more than any other law enforcement agency in the state.
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For over 460 days, as the pandemic shut down visitation across the state, incarcerated people and their loved ones relied on the prison system’s costly phone calls and emails.The Kentucky Department of Corrections and Securus Technologies reaped big rewards.
