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A county sheriff is responsible not to county authorities but to the citizens of the county. County governments are responsible for providing funding to the Sheriff's Office. The sheriff is the highest-ranking law enforcement officer of each of the state's 100 counties, but possess no authority over state or municipal officers.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 389 law enforcement agencies employing 7,833 sworn police officers, about 183 for each 100,000 residents.
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Kentucky is one of just three states in the nation to elect its next governor in 2023, and the official field of candidates is crowded. Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, is seeking his second term in ...
No motive has been publicly identified. Kentucky State Police didn’t provide one in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, which took place just before 3 p.m. Thursday.Nor did police host a ...
Clinton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky in the Pennyrile Region along the southern border with Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,253. [1] Its county seat is Albany. [2] The county was formed in 1835 and named for DeWitt Clinton, the seventh Governor of New York. [3] It is a prohibition or dry county.
Two Republicans plan to run against Sharon Muse Johnson in the primary for 14th District Commonwealth’s Attorney, which serves Bourbon, Scott and Woodford counties.
Because today's largest county by area, Pike County, is 788 square miles (2,041 km 2), it is only still possible to form a new county from portions of more than one existing county; McCreary County was formed in this manner, from parts of Wayne, Pulaski and Whitley counties. Kentucky was originally a single county in Virginia, created in 1776.