Ryland Barton

 The Kentucky House of Representatives passed a bill Monday banning the death penalty for people with some severe mental illnesses.

Louisville’s new civilian review board would be able to subpoena for police records if approved by a local judge, under a bill advancing in the state legislature.

  Kentucky courthouses have been closed to in-person traffic for much of the pandemic, but the state Supreme Court has issued an order slowly easing coronavirus restrictions and allowing more face-to-face hearings.

  The state House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would bar people, news outlets and other entities outside the commonwealth from making open records requests for Kentucky records.

Republican lawmakers unveiled a bill Thursday that would make several changes to Kentucky’s elections, including instituting three days of no-excuse early voting and giving absentee voters a chance to fix their ballots if they sign them incorrectly.

A bill placing limits on no-knock search warrants in Kentucky passed out of a legislative committee on Thursday, nearly a year after Louisville police shot and killed Breonna Taylor during a middle-of-the-night raid.

The Republican president of the Kentucky Senate filed a bill that would restrict “no-knock” search warrants, the type of warrant used in the Louisville police raid that killed Breonna Taylor last year.

A bill banning governors from reorganizing the Kentucky Board of Education passed out of a legislative committee on Tuesday morning.

  A Kentucky judge urged Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, Republican Attorney General Daniel Cameron and GOP leaders of the legislature to come to a compromise in the power struggle over the state’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.