When Janet Whelan was fired in the fall of 2024 as a Kentucky probation and parole officer based in Louisville, her bosses said she had ignored her public safety job duties dozens of times over the past two years.
Whelan wasn’t supervising the offenders assigned to her, they said. Instead, she copied and pasted her case notes to make it look like she was tracking their progress. Offenders with addictions weren’t drug tested. New criminal convictions weren’t caught and reported. Home visits weren’t conducted.
Whelan’s Sept. 28, 2024, termination letter detailing the allegations against her ran 24 pages…