London Ledger

01/01/2026

Let’s talk about consistency

📅 August 15, 2025
A special-called City Council meeting was held in the council chambers, with a large crowd present.

That meeting was allowed to proceed and was officially marked “COMPLETED.”

📅 December 3, 2025
A different special-called meeting with the same room, same setup, similar crowd size, was suddenly declared an immediate fire code issue, evacuated, and a fire alarm was pulled. Council members were even pressured to leave the building and the fire chief told the police to arrest them if they didn’t leave

What changed between August 15 and December 3?

If the room, layout, and capacity were acceptable in August, why did those same conditions suddenly become an “immediate life-safety hazard” in December?

01/01/2026

A question of police presence

For several months now, multiple London City Council meetings have had a notably large City of London police presence, in some cases well over 10 officers, and at times significantly more.

At these meetings, officers, including command staff and higher-ranking officials, such as the acting chief of police have routinely been present. Officers have been observed positioned throughout the building, in corners, holding doors, and escorting the mayor.

This raises important and reasonable questions, including:
• What threat assessment or operational need justifies this level of police presence at routine legislative meetings?
• Who authorizes deployment decisions for council meetings and are those decisions documented?
• Why are command-level officers attending these meetings rather than remaining on supervisory duty elsewhere?
• Are officers reassigned from regular patrol or response duties to staff these meetings?
• What written policies, protocols, or criteria govern security planning for public meetings?

When law enforcement resources are visibly concentrated in one location, the public deserves clarity about why and under what authority. Transparency reduces speculation and builds trust.

12/31/2025

NEW VIDEO WATCH & LISTEN CLOSELY

This post includes body-cam footage and dispatch audio from the December 3rd meeting evacuation.

If this was truly a serious, immediate life-safety emergency, as later claimed then, why are police officers, firefighters, city employees, and even dispatch heard laughing?

Emergencies don’t usually sound casual.
Immediate hazards don’t usually involve jokes or laughter. And serious safety threats don’t typically feel routine to the people responding.

Watch the footage. Listen to the audio. And decide for yourself whether this sounds like a genuine emergency or something else.

Transparency starts with letting people see and hear the raw evidence.

12/30/2025

If the room was truly an immediate life-safety hazard due to capacity well before 12 p.m, why wasn’t action taken then, instead of waiting until around 12:30 p.m. to call it in and pull the fire alarm?

Immediate hazards don’t usually wait.

12/30/2025

An official statement was released about the December 3rd evacuation, but only after body-cam footage became public.

That alone raises questions.

If this was a clear-cut fire code enforcement action, why:
• wait until video was released to explain it?
• was the dispatcher heard laughing when the call came in? (scroll up — we posted the audio)
• was the Fire Chief captured on video urging officers to arrest city council members?

Those are not rumors.
Those are recordings.

Fire code enforcement doesn’t happen by press release.
It happens through documented calculations, written hazard determinations, cited code sections, and clear authority — none of which have been publicly produced.

So now we’ve done the obvious thing.

A formal open records request has been submitted asking the City to provide the actual paperwork that would have to exist if this was legitimate fire code enforcement.

If the records exist, release them.
If they don’t, the public deserves to know why.

We’ll publish exactly what the City produces or what it can’t.

Stay tuned. Documents don’t lie.

12/30/2025

Robbie Grimes was right and now there’s video proof.
This didn’t happen in secret. Multiple police officers were present, watched it happen, and did nothing.
The public needs to call the County Attorney’s Office and demand this be formally reviewed and acted on.

Jody Albright – County Attorney
📞 606-864-6159

Accountability only happens when citizens speak up. Please share!

12/30/2025

12/29/2025

Robbie Grimes has now admitted that the fire department pulled the fire alarm during a city council meeting?

Let that sink in.

Pulling a fire alarm when there is no emergency is not a joke, not a prank, and not “business as usual.” It’s a serious act that causes panic, disrupts public business, and wastes emergency resources.

What’s even more concerning is that Robbie Grimes is running for sheriff — the top law-enforcement position in this county — and he appears to condone a fire department employee pulling a fire alarm to interrupt a public meeting.

Law enforcement is supposed to enforce the law, not excuse it when it’s politically convenient.

Voters should be asking:
• Would this be acceptable if a citizen did it?
• Would there be charges if it weren’t city employees involved?
• Is this the standard of accountability we want from someone seeking to be sheriff?

Leadership matters. Integrity matters. And so does equal enforcement of the law.

12/26/2025

Since when does 12,000 people live in the City of London, Kentucky?

12/17/2025

STATEMENT FROM THE LONDON CITY COUNCIL – December 17, 2025

The City Council wishes to address the Mayor's recent claim that budget adjustments will necessitate laying off the entire fire department.

Let us be clear: Last fiscal year, when the fire department exceeded its allocated budget, the Mayor not only maintained full staffing but expanded both personnel and equipment. We have every confidence that the Mayor will continue to fund the fire department as our budget process moves forward.

The Council has formally requested a comprehensive accounting of all department expenditures and revenue. This detailed financial review will ensure transparency and inform responsible decision-making.

We call upon the Mayor to immediately cease these unfounded warnings about eliminating our fire department. Such statements serve only to alarm our residents unnecessarily and undermine public confidence in our city's commitment to essential services.

The City Council remains dedicated to maintaining a fully operational fire department while exercising responsible fiscal oversight. We will continue working to ensure our community's safety is never compromised.

WKYT WYMT LEX 18

12/15/2025

Name fixed. Police logo still wrong. Books magically changed.

Real awards don’t need AI edits.