Amy Shoemaker claims she was demoted after she angered then-U of L President Neeli Bendapudi by telling police about an extortion attempt by then-assistant basketball coach Dino Gaudio.

A policy put in place by the Bullitt County Attorney’s Office takes a hard line on felony charges, refusing to amend them once they are filed, according to a whistleblower lawsuit filed by a former prosecutor.

Former Officer Paul Paris claims he was the first person to blow the whistle in 2013 on sexual abuse of minors by officers in the department but has suffered "tremendous consequences" as a result.

Kimberly Maffet claimed she was retaliated against in part because she learned a U of L coach (described only as “Coach 3”) “was having an affair with a co-employee,” violating the university’s sexual harassment policy.

Aaron Smith claims the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet fired him when he refused to agree that James Erwin, the commissioner responsible for the state prison system, had committed wrongdoing. 

They told supervisors and a prosecutor that evidence was being taken from the Elizabethtown post property rooms and secure lots between July and November of this year for “personal gain” by two troopers.

An employee with the state commission alleges she was pressured to drop a complaint that her supervisor falsified records and committed misconduct, according to documents obtained by WDRB News

In a lawsuit, Former Kentucky corrections commissioner Jim Erwin claimed he was fired for expressing disagreement and concern with how internal investigations are handled at the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet.