Jasmine Demers
Investigative ReporterJasmine Demers works on LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team covering youth and social services. She is a corps member with Report For America, a national service program that places journalists into local newsrooms.
Jasmine worked previously for the Arizona Daily Star. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Arizona School of Journalism, where she was editor-in-chief of the student-run Daily Wildcat.
Email Jasmine at jdemers@lpm.org.
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Ja’Ceon Terry’s death was ruled a homicide. But no one has yet to face criminal charges. -
Starting next month, more kids who are charged with violent crimes will be automatically prosecuted as adults. In Louisville, police data show most will be Black. -
Kentucky’s child care providers warn they’ll have to cut pay, increase tuition rates or even close their doors without significant investments from the state as federal funding expires. -
The rate of children in Kentucky’s foster care system who are reunited with their families has been steadily declining for years — and now it’s the lowest it’s been in over a decade. -
A former Jefferson County deputy, who was convicted of sexual misconduct involving a 15-year-old girl in 1996, filed a lawsuit recently and wants the judge to allow him to regain his law enforcement certification. -
KyCIR spent months examining how the state investigates abuse and neglect in residential foster care facilities. Here’s how we did it. -
Never before revealed records show children report instances of abuse, neglect and danger in residential care facilities that go unheard and unchecked by state officials.
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A report from a local child advocacy group shows one out of three kids that leave foster care in Kentucky will experience homelessness or housing insecurity as an adult. -
A report obtained by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting from the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services offers new details into what happened at Brooklawn, a foster care facility in Louisville, the day that 7-year-old Ja’Ceon Terry died last July.
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Uspiritus-Brooklawn and the estate of 7-year-old Ja’Ceon Terry reached a private settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit, just days after the judge ruled that a former employee could override her confidentiality agreement and testify about mistreatment she said she witnessed while working there.
