Jordan Smith

5 days ago | indystar.com | Hayleigh Colombo |Jordan Smith

Four of 25 City-County Council members have called on Hogsett to resign while others have expressed disappointment in his handling of sexual misconduct claims against his former chief deputy mayor. Hogsett is serving in his third term as mayor of the city of Indianapolis and still has about two and a half years left in his term.

1 week ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith |Hayleigh Colombo

The Indianapolis City-County Council member who leads the committee investigating allegations of sexual harassment within Mayor Joe Hogsett's administration became the fourth councilor to call for the mayor to resign over the scandal on Tuesday night. She also demanded that the council's top two Democrats step down from their leadership roles over their involvement with the investigation.

2 weeks ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

Indianapolis City-County Council President Vop Osili has apologized for ordering deputies to forcibly remove Lauren Roberts, a victim of alleged sexual harassment, from a June 9 council meeting. Osili said he regrets the trauma his actions caused to Roberts, who delivered a distraught and tearful address to media outside the building.

2 weeks ago | indystar.com | Jordan Smith

Indianapolis plans to send street outreach teams to homeless camps across the city and move around 350 people into stable housing. The city aims to end chronic and unsheltered homelessness by 2028, affecting a quarter of the city's homeless population. Starting this summer, Indianapolis leaders plan to close all the homeless camps and makeshift shelters across the city and place the roughly 350 people living in them into supportive housing.

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Jordan Smith |Hayleigh Colombo

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said June 10 he has no intention of stepping down despite calls by multiple members of the City-County Council for his resignation. The mayor is dealing with fallout from an investigation about how he handled sexual harassment allegations in his office by his former chief of staff, and a revelation about his own late-night, personal texts to two younger women who said they felt uncomfortable receiving the messages.