Morgan Watkins
@morganwatkins.lpm.org
Investigative reporter covering health and the environment for @lpm.org & the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting (KyCIR). Formerly w/ Courier Journal, Gainesville Sun.
Think an issue needs coverage? Email me: [email protected]
Think an issue needs coverage? Email me: [email protected]
Recently, @jwoodjourno.bsky.social of @thecourierjournal.bsky.social mapped other Flock cameras in Louisville as well. (Check out the link.) Meanwhile at KyCIR, we're appealing to the Kentucky attorney general challenging LMPD's refusal to provide records on *all* its license plate reader locations.
Flock cameras? Here are some locations of the LMPD surveillance tool
The Courier Journal has been able to use publicly available documents to identify dozens of locations where Flock Safety either installed, or received a permit to install, its cameras on behalf of LMP...
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January 13, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Recently, @jwoodjourno.bsky.social of @thecourierjournal.bsky.social mapped other Flock cameras in Louisville as well. (Check out the link.) Meanwhile at KyCIR, we're appealing to the Kentucky attorney general challenging LMPD's refusal to provide records on *all* its license plate reader locations.
Thanks, and you make a good point! I’ll think about that for future stories.
December 20, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Thanks, and you make a good point! I’ll think about that for future stories.
One more story for the road in 2025: An LMPD internal investigation sparked by our discovery of an officer's apparently immigration-related searches of license plate reader data has widened to include three more employees.
Louisville police commanders entangled in internal investigation of license plate reader searches
The internal probe relates to an officer’s ICE-related searches of license plate data.
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December 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
One more story for the road in 2025: An LMPD internal investigation sparked by our discovery of an officer's apparently immigration-related searches of license plate reader data has widened to include three more employees.
Here's a look back at the investigations we did at KyCIR this year:
Our year in investigations: 11 stories for Kentucky
The year that was brought new stories of old problems in Kentucky.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Here's a look back at the investigations we did at KyCIR this year: