Corrections & retractions
Last updated: 2026-08-27
This page logs corrections, retractions, and substantive post-publication edits made to articles on feeds.lexingtonky.news. We do not silently change published material; if a factual error is corrected after publication, it is recorded here. The editorial surface at lexingtonky.news keeps its own correction log at lexingtonky.news/corrections.
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Log
2026-08-27 — Flock audit links reported as dead
Article: Lexington police have run more than 400,000 Flock searches since 2022. The independent review skipped all of 2023, and now samples 60 entries a quarter. (originally headlined "Lexington police have run 266,000 Flock searches in two years. The independent review samples 60 a quarter, and the first two years of audits are dead links.")
What was wrong: The article reported that ten of the 27 Flock audits listed on the city's license plate reader audit page returned 404 errors, and that the first two years of the program's oversight record — Q3 2022 through Q2 2024 — could not be read. All 27 documents download. The city's links are double-encoded (the file names on the server contain literal %20 sequences), and our retrieval decoded them once before requesting, producing a 404 that the city's server never returned to an ordinary reader. The error was ours, not the city's.
How we checked it was not a same-day repair: Before publishing this correction we tested whether LFUCG had quietly fixed the links after our story ran. It had not. All ten files carry a Last-Modified header of Oct. 7, 2024, unchanged for 23 months; the content server's edge cache had been serving one of them continuously since roughly Aug. 16, ten days before our story published; and the Internet Archive holds a successful capture of the same double-encoded address dated Jan. 1, 2025.
What was changed: A dated correction was placed at the top of the article. The headline, summary and cover caption were rewritten. The screenshot of the 404 page was removed and replaced with the first page of the recovered Oct. 5, 2022 launch audit. The story was rebuilt on all 27 documents rather than 17: the data table now runs from Q4 2022 instead of Q3 2024, the search total rose from 266,183 to at least 400,168, and the claim that searches-per-reason "rose in every single quarter" was narrowed to the Q3 2024–Q2 2026 window, since the Q2 2023 figure is higher than anything recorded until late 2025. Reading the recovered documents also produced two findings the original missed: no Public Integrity Unit audit is published for any quarter of 2023, and the repeat-plate screen applied only to a single user in Q2 2024 before that qualifier was dropped. A follow-up was sent to the Lexington Police Department withdrawing our earlier question about missing audit files.
Flagged by: Paul Oliva, in review of the published article. No outside party raised it.
2026-08-24 — Blue Sky Small Area Plan adoption vote
What was wrong: The article said the Planning Commission took no motion or vote on the Blue Sky Small Area Plan at its June 11, 2026 meeting and that no adoption vote could be found in the record, and suggested the industrial-zone text amendment's justification document misstated its own adoption. That was wrong. The commission's official June 11 minutes (page 10) record that Mr. Nicol moved, Mr. Penn seconded, and the commission voted 9-0 (Owens and Worth absent) to adopt the plan as an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. The vote is on the meeting video at about 1:43:40. Our search relied on the meeting's closed captions, which are blank for the roughly three and a half minutes in which the motion and vote occurred.
What was changed: A dated correction was appended to the article on both feeds.lexingtonky.news and lexingtonky.news the same day. The original passage was left in place above the correction. The correction also notes the Planning Division's confirmation that the industrial-zone amendment (PLN-ZOTA-26-00009) is scheduled for commission consideration on Sept. 24, 2026.
Flagged by: Jim Duncan, Director, LFUCG Division of Planning, in response to a question from The Lexington Times.
2026-05-12 — Secretary of State HB 4 ceremonial signing
Article: Kentucky Secretary of State to hold ceremonial signing for child grooming law (originally headlined "Kentucky Secretary of State to sign child grooming bill into law")
What was wrong: The original headline and body framed Tuesday's event at the Secretary of State's office as Secretary Michael Adams signing HB 4 into law. HB 4 was already law — Gov. Andy Beshear signed it on April 10, 2026 (legislative record). The event at Secretary Adams's office was a ceremonial signing, not the bill becoming law.
What was changed: Headline rewritten to "Kentucky Secretary of State to hold ceremonial signing for child grooming law." Lead paragraph rewritten to note Beshear's April 10 signing. Closing logistics paragraph corrected from "The bill signing is scheduled" to "The ceremonial signing is scheduled." Article re-summary written and an editor's note appended to the article body. The article URL slug was left unchanged to preserve the inbound link in the email that flagged the error.
Flagged by: Nick Storm, Director of Communications, Kentucky Secretary of State.