KSP so frequently encountered questionable expungements from judges that the agency wrestled with how to handle the problem, according to former high-level officials and emails obtained by WDRB News.

A Jefferson County judge in 2015 set aside a law enforcement officer's conviction for a sex crime involving a child, a key action now that the officer is trying to keep his badge despite a new Kentucky law forbidding people with convictions for misdemeanor sex crimes from having police powers.