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El presidente de la junta escolar de Fayette County afirma que el superintendente Demetrus Liggins tiene residencia en Kentucky, como requiere la ley estatal, aunque registros públicos muestran que él es copropietario de una casa de cinco habitaciones cerca de Dallas, Texas, que cuenta con exención de impuestos por residencia principal desde enero de 2024, mientras que no posee propiedad alguna en el condado de Kentucky. La ley de Kentucky requiere que el superintendente establezca residencia en el estado, y aunque no está claro cuál es su residencia principal, la junta escolar dice que este tema no está bajo revisión, atribuyendo su licencia actual a una controversia separada relacionada con un correo electrónico disputado.
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Asked whether the Fayette County schools superintendent lives in Kentucky, as state law requires, board chair Tyler Murphy didn’t equivocate: “Dr. Liggins has a Kentucky residence. That issue is not under review,” he told The Lexington Times on Monday.
Public records make that a slightly awkward thing to say plainly. A five-bedroom house outside Dallas is held in a family trust that bears Superintendent Demetrus Liggins’s name and his spouse’s, and has carried a Texas homestead exemption since January 2024 — a tax break Texas grants only on an owner’s principal residence. In the Kentucky county whose schools Liggins runs, he owns no property at all.
Kentucky law (KRS 160.350) requires the superintendent to establish residency in the state. A Kentucky residence, which Murphy says Liggins has, is not the same as the homesteaded principal residence the couple keeps some 800 miles away — and the public record doesn’t show which one is actually home. A lease or a voter registration, the cleaner tells, wouldn’t turn up in either state’s property rolls. For the highest-paid superintendent in Kentucky, it’s an odd look.
None of it, for what it’s worth, appears to be why Liggins is on leave. Local news reports have tied the board’s action to a separate controversy — an accusation, which Liggins denies, involving a disputed email — not to where he lives. The board itself hasn’t said what it’s reviewing, and the district, citing the personnel matter, declined to discuss his residency. Residency, Murphy says, isn’t under review.
This story was reported and drafted with AI assistance (claude-opus-4-8) under the direction of The Lexington Times. Every record cited was verified against its primary source: Dallas Central Appraisal District account and homestead-exemption records, the Fayette County Property Valuation Administrator’s owner rolls, the Texas Tax Code, the Kentucky Revised Statutes, and the cited news reporting. The Lexington Times sought comment from Fayette County Public Schools, the board chair, and the superintendent’s attorney before publication.
