$1 M Grant From DOJ Enables Kentucky to Target Child Trafficking forensicmag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from forensicmag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gov. Beshear: State Tackling Findings of UofL Child Trafficking Study with $1 Million Federal Grant
Project PIVOT identifies opportunities for education, training, policy development
FRANKFORT, Ky.
(May 19, 2021) – Gov. Andy Beshear on Wednesday said a $1 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will help the state address key findings of the University of Louisville (UofL) Human Trafficking Research Initiative’s
Project PIVOT:
Prevention and Intervention for Victims of Trafficking, a two-year research project.
When Gov. Beshear served as Attorney General, his office collaborated with Project PIVOT on the research. Now that he is Governor, his administration is working to carry out the project’s recommendations, which include the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) creating an advisory council; launching a human trafficking and child labor screening tool to identify high-risk children; and hiring a full-time child
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By TOM LATEK
Kentucky Today Apr 7, 2021
Gov. Andy Beshear (Kentucky Today/Tom Latek)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) â Gov. Andy Beshear has signed an executive order creating an Unemployment Insurance Fraud Detection and Prevention Task Force to coordinate between state and federal agencies the detection, investigation, prosecution and prevention of unemployment insurance fraud in Kentucky.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States has seen an increase in fraudulent claims for unemployment insurance. To date more than $63 billion in fraudulent benefits has been paid nationwide. This fraud is complex and requires a multi-agency, multi-jurisdictional response, which the task force is designed to address.
Another surge not âwritten in stone,â but COVID decline over in Kentucky
Kentucky held off the case plateau longer than other states, but at last it appears to have arrived.
Gov. Beshear updates Kentuckyâs vaccine rollout, COVID in Kentucky By Brian Planalp | April 5, 2021 at 3:39 PM EDT - Updated April 5 at 6:37 PM
FRANKFORT, Ky (FOX19) - Kentuckyâs months-long decline in new cases of COVID-19 appears to have bottomed out.
The commonwealth recorded 4,377 new cases last week, or 181 more than the week before.
That incremental increase is the first since early January, snapping a 12-week streak of declining cases that followed the post-holiday surge.
Local businessman pleads not guilty to federal charges, trial set floydcountytimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from floydcountytimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.