Louisville to roll out domestic violence dashboard as Kentucky intimate-partner homicides rise

Louisville plans to launch a domestic violence dashboard designed to surface information about intimate-partner violence and fatalities, according to a report by WLKY published October 8, 2026. The announcement comes as public safety officials confront a worsening statewide pattern of lethal domestic violence.

While Louisville has seen a decline in shootings, the broader trend is different for domestic violence. WLKY reported that from 2020 to 2025 there has been a 133% increase in domestic violence-related homicides in Kentucky, pointing to an escalation in the most severe outcomes of intimate-partner violence.

The dashboard initiative is intended to provide an accessible way to view domestic violence-related incidents, including homicide cases, using reported data. Officials in Louisville have framed the effort as a tool to help communities understand where and when deadly violence linked to domestic situations is occurring, and to support local prevention and response work.

The project also reflects the way domestic violence can remain difficult for residents to track because cases are handled across multiple systems, including law enforcement response, prosecution, and the courts. By consolidating information into a single public-facing format, the city is attempting to make the data more readable for partners and the public, rather than leaving it spread across separate agencies and reports.

Statewide, the reported rise in domestic violence-related homicides underscores the stakes for accurate identification, timely intervention, and accountability in handling threats. Advocates and public safety officials have long argued that better information can help identify patterns, such as repeat incidents or hotspots, though the specific methodology Louisville will use has not been detailed in the WLKY report.

The immediate next step, per the report, is the dashboard launch itself. After it goes live, residents and stakeholders are expected to use it to follow domestic-violence-related outcomes and to gauge how local efforts are evolving alongside the data.

As with any public safety dashboard, the usefulness of the platform will depend on what information it includes, how often it is updated, and how case categories are defined. Louisville’s timeline for those updates and the scope of the underlying data were not specified in the WLKY summary, and further city documentation may be needed for residents seeking detail on how incidents are counted and displayed.