(TNS) Kentucky’s highest court has reversed Lexington’s ban on no-knock warrants, ruling that a city ordinance banning their use directly conflicts with state law.

The Kentucky Supreme Court issued the ruling Thursday morning, reversing a decision from the lower Court of Appeals that said the city’s 2021 ban on no-knock warrants was lawful.

Writing for the majority of the court, Justice Robert Conley wrote that a state statute designed to limit how no-knock warrants can be executed explicitly allows those warrants to be executed throughout the state.

“Nothing has been shown to negate this one salient fact: LPD officers are directly prohibited, and the judges of Lexington-Fayette County are indirectly limited by the ordinance from doing what the judges and law enforcement officers in the

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