KRS 67B.040

The mayor of a consolidated local government or a fiscal court shall, at or subsequent to the creation or maintenance of a metropolitan correctional services department, appoint and employ an executive director of the metropolitan correctional services department who shall be well-educated, trained, and experienced in the administration of correctional and rehabilitative public facilities, and who, together with assistant directors, to be appointed and employed by the mayor or fiscal court, shall have full and complete management of the department and all of its operations. The executive director of the department, together with all assistant directors, shall be directly appointed by, and shall serve at the pleasure of, the mayor or fiscal court, and may be removed and replaced upon order of the mayor or fiscal court.