Your Kentucky requirements
What you will learn
- Identify the authority for your location
- Explain your next training and application steps
- Know which details to confirm before starting work
Connect the shared foundations to your state entry route and official next steps.
Your shift starts here
What would you do next?
You have finished the online foundations lessons and found an employer in Kentucky. The employer asks when you can start.
Choose a response to see what happens.
Put it into practice
Verify your training next step
You are considering paying for a course. Build this verification plan in dependency order: define your target, establish the relevant requirements, check the exact course against them, then use the confirmed answers to decide.
Select the steps in the order you would take them.
- Choose step 1 below
Lesson notes & sources
Your state entry route
Confirm the requirements for your exact unarmed job and city with the employer and local licensing office. The official sources checked give only partial unarmed entry guidance.
Ask for the employer's written training requirements and confirmation of any locally mandated course before enrolling.
Define the role
Confirm that the vacancy is unarmed, employed work and record the worksite address.
Check local requirements
Ask the city licensing office which employee permits, if any, apply to those duties.
Complete employer screening
Supply requested hiring documents and confirm the approved start date.
Complete induction
Review site instructions, escalation procedures and required training with your supervisor.
Confirm your situation
Louisville publishes a separate armed-security licensing route.
This entry does not establish an exemption from all state or local requirements.
Keep your sources current
These sources were checked on 2026-09-16. Ask the named authority and employer to confirm the remaining local requirements.
The Get Licensed foundations course is supplementary preparation. Follow the required approved training and authorisation process for your location.