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A bill banning newly elected Kentucky constables from exercising police powers before they get training passed out of a Kentucky House committee Wednesday.
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A bill requiring constables to receive training before they can wield police powers narrowly advanced on the second-to-last day of this year’s legislative…
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The county will pay $75,000 in damages to Pedro and Tammie Ortiz on behalf of Constable David Whitlock, who shot Tammie Ortiz in November 2011.
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Because the office is enshrined in the state constitution, constables are responsible to no one except a small slice of a county’s voters every four years.
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The office of constable, which is established by Kentucky’s state constitution, is again under scrutiny. Earlier attempts to eliminate the office have…
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From NPR: Jin Li is a professor at Brown University who compares the learning beliefs of Asian and U.S. children. She says that to understand why these…
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Kentucky lawmakers who advocate abolishing the office of constable are emboldened by a new report from the state justice cabinet calling for just that.…
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A new report by Kentucky's Justice Cabinet is advocating for the elimination of the office of constable.The office is set in the Kentucky Constitution,…
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Governor Steve Beshear's constitutional amendment to legalize casinos in Kentucky has cleared its first legislative hurdle. The bill passed the Senate's…
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Constables in Kentucky have been around for over 160 years. But however necessary the county-level job may have been in 1850, some lawmakers today believe…