LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville Mayor Craig Greenberg is expected to make an announcement Thursday morning about the city's Office of the Inspector General.
Ed Harness was unanimously approved as the city's first inspector general in November 2021, tasked with investigating allegations of misconduct between the Louisville Metro Police Department and the public.
Louisville's Inspector General Ed Harness. (WDRB file photo)
Harness also leads the Metro Council Civilian Review and Accountability Board, created in the wake of the Breonna Taylor shooting. When LMPD officers knocked down Taylor's door and killed her in a raid, it sparked a storm of outrage and placed a spotlight on policing in Louisville.
While the accountability board can make recommendations for change, it doesn't have the ability to impose any discipline.
The 11-member citizen board was a key reform promised by then-Mayor Greg Fischer and approved by Metro Council in November 2020 in the months after the Breonna Taylor shooting.
Harness' contract is up in November. He previously told WDRB he had been told his chances of his contract being renewed are "slim." He said he didn't exactly know why that is the prevailing belief and pointed out he has had a good relationship with the mayor's office.
"We've done everything that we are supposed to under the ordinance, and we've done a good job," he said in an August interview. "I don't think there is any reason I shouldn't be appointed, honestly."
Harness also said he had been having trouble getting responses to his recommendations from all three of the Louisville police chiefs who have served since he was appointed.
Earlier this year, he described his relationship with Humphrey as "cold" after remarks from the chief vehemently criticized Harness and the Civilian Review and Accountability Board's findings that an officer violated policy in a fatal shooting.
Humphrey later called for a "healthy and functioning relationship" between LMPD and the OIG "so that we can get good feedback and they give good information to the public about what we're doing."
"So whoever is in that role, that's the type of relationship that we look for," Humphrey said during an August news briefing. "Would I characterize our relationship as highly functioning now? I think we have some roadblock that I would like to improve, and I think we are both putting forth efforts toward making sure we streamline a lot of the bumps we've had over the last year."
Greenberg had no comment when asked if he planned on renewing Harness' contract.
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