“While waiting for or riding on public transportation or paratransit, or while riding in a taxi, private car service, or ride-sharing vehicle, or driving any of the above while customers are present” or.“While inside, or waiting in line to enter, any: retail establishment grocery store pharmacy hair salon/barbershop nail salon/spa tattoo parlor child care facility restaurant or bar (when not seated and consuming food or beverage) health care setting, or any other indoor public space in which it is difficult to maintain a physical distance of at least six feet from all individuals who are not members of that person’s household”.
The Executive Order states that face coverings will be required: Due to those increasing numbers, Governor Andy Beshear is requiring Kentuckians to wear face coverings in public. Like many states around the country, Kentucky has seen an alarming increase in COVID-19 cases. You can share your thoughts about civilian oversight here. Work group materials and more information is here. Anticipating prompt approval of such a system, Metro Council funded it in the budget we passed in June, appropriating over $750,000 to the effort. We will be recommending changes for adoption in the near future. I am one of four Metro Council members serving on a broad-based community work group studying civilian review models from across the country. I believe it should include an independent, civilian inspector general as well as a civilian board. We also need systemic change at LMPD, and a comprehensive, sustainable and independent civilian oversight system for our police department. Louisville deserves transparency and answers from LMPD and Mayor Greg Fischer's administration. Once Attorney General Daniel Cameron completes his work and makes a decision regarding potential criminal charges in the shooting of Breonna Taylor, which I hope will be soon, I expect the Council committee to also look into all of the circumstances surrounding her death, and the involvement of the “Place Based Investigations Squad” in the investigations which led to the search warrant for her home. The following day, I called for an investigation into the decision to send vanloads of LMPD officers and the National Guard to a West End food mart, in an action which culminated in the death of Mr. I had called for an investigation into the use of tear gas on apparently peaceful protesters on May 31. Metro Council is moving forward with an investigation into recent LMPD activities, while a work group continues efforts to create a civilian oversight system for the department.Įarlier this week, the Government Oversight and Audit Committee, on which I serve, voted unanimously to begin an investigation of actions and inactions surrounding the deaths of Breonna Taylor and David McAtee, and related protests in Louisville Metro. Investigation Begins and Civilian Oversight Advances