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Jared Bennett

Jared Bennett

Jared Bennett is an investigative reporter and deputy editor for LPM's Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting team. Previously, he was a reporter at the Center for Public Integrity and a digital producer for WBUR in Boston.

Floodplain buyouts in Kentucky are ‘the fastest in the program’s history’
By: - December 28, 2023

When floodwaters rushed through the town of McRoberts in July 2022, Kimberly Sapp-Allen and her husband packed what they could in their vehicles, left their home that sat along the rising creek and headed for higher ground. The floods scoured several counties across Eastern Kentucky, including Letcher County — where Sapp-Allen lives. In the end, […]

How flood cleanup left Kentucky disaster victims feeling violated and vulnerable
By: and - April 27, 2023

This article is republished from the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting. On a steamy day in August, Don Young dug through the rubble that used to be his home. He was desperately trying to salvage the most precious possessions representing the life he’d made in the Letcher County community of McRoberts. Floods last July ravaged […]