Preserving Liberty in the Commonwealth

In a December 15, 2025, letter from the school board’s attorney, the Jenkins Independent School District told Elizabeth Jones they would have law enforcement remove her from any property the school district owns or leases, and seek criminal trespass charges against her, even though her children attend the school and participate in extracurricular activities on school property.

Family Preservation and Accountability Act just cleared the Kentucky House. It had already passed the Senate. Now it heads to the Governor’s desk. After all the debate, the testimony, and the long nights, the work is done. And in the language of the legislature, there’s a word for that. Clincher.

We believe people closest to a problem are best suited to identifying solutions. That's why we work to connect people who are directly impacted by policies and laws to those who have the power to make sweeping changes. Jaden Spence is one of them. He pressed his support of the Family Preservation and Accountability Act to a committee of House representatives by sharing his experience growing up with an incarcerated parent. Immediately after his testimony, that committee passed the bill on to its last major hurdle, the floor of the full House. Here's Jaden's story..

Every week, children across the state receive letters from Kentucky prisons. Some are written on lined notebook paper. Some are typed. Some are messy with corrections and crossed-out words. But almost all of them contain the same things: Regret and fear about what is happening to their children while they are gone.