On April 29, Jeffrey Lauder was found to have committed conduct unbecoming "at a party at your home during the summer of 2020," according to a memo from Chief Paul Humphrey. But he was cleared of the most serious allegations, sexual harassment, untruthfulness and a second violation of conduct unbecoming.
Maj. Shannon Lauder claims she was sexually harassed by the male offer leading an investigation into an "adult pool party" thrown by the Lauders in which another officer filed a lawsuit claiming she was sexually harassed.
The party, at the home of Maj. Shannon Lauder and her husband, Lt. Jeff Lauder, has come under public scrutiny in recent weeks after an officer filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against the department and the Lauders, claiming they were "grossly inappropriate" in making sexual comments and advances toward her.
Zach Cottongim was 29 years old when he died Dec. 18, 2021, after a car hit him on Interstate 64. He was outside of his police cruiser attempting to have an abandoned vehicle moved near I-64 west at Mellwood Avenue, when the accident happened
It happened around 8 p.m. Saturday.
The officers from Louisville Metro Police's First Division were the initial ones on the scene of the mass shooting.
Progressive and State Farm have stopped offering insurance on vehicles that have been deemed too easy to steal in cities like Denver and St. Louis.
Police, friends and family of Cottongim attended a service at Cave Hill Cemetery honoring the fallen officer.
Det. Brett Hankison 'should have known which direction he was going, how fast he was going and whether his lights and siren were on,' an investigator concluded.
The meeting was heated at times, as Lauder defended her department's work and alleged that a report by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting was "disingenuous" and "manipulated" statistics.
