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KRS § 15.518 Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program -- Administrative regulations -- Confidentiality of program participant's communications and data -- Exceptions -- Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program fund -- Leave following critical incident
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Administrative regulations -- Confidentiality of program participant's communications and data -- Exceptions -- Law Enforcement Professional Development and Wellness Program fund -- Leave following critical incident. (1) As used in this section, unless the context requires otherw…
KRS § 15.519 Definitions -- Officer access to private open land for surveillance prohibited without search warrant -- Exceptions
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without search warrant -- Exceptions. (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Officer" means any local, state, or federal officer who is employed or contracted by a governmental agency in Kentucky and includes: 1. Law enforcement officer as define…
KRS § 15.520 Complaints against police officers -- Manner of investigation and hearing -- Statutory provisions that do not apply
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Statutory provisions that do not apply. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Citizen" means any individual who is not: 1. A member or supervisor within the law enforcement agency that employs an officer; or 2. An elected or appointed official within the unit of government under whic…
KRS § 15.525 Referral program for substance abuse treatment -- Information exempt from disclosure under KRS 61.878(1)(a) -- Limitation of liability
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from disclosure under KRS 61.878(1)(a) -- Limitation of liability. (1) A law enforcement agency may create a program to refer persons to treatment for substance use who voluntarily seek assistance from the law enforcement agency. (2) A person voluntarily seeking assistance throug…
KRS § 15.530 Definitions for KRS 15.530 to 15.590
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For the purposes of KRS 15.530 to 15.590: (1) "CJIS" means the Criminal Justice Information System; (2) "CJIS-full access course" means an online training program administered and approved by the Kentucky State Police CJIS Services Agency; (3) "Commissioner" means the commissione…
KRS § 15.540 Qualifications for public safety telecommunicator -- Information not subject to disclosure -- Training requirements
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to disclosure -- Training requirements. (1) An agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator shall certify to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council within one hundred twenty (120) days after the hire date that the applicant: (a) Is a citizen of the United States and has reached the ag…
KRS § 15.550 Law enforcement telecommunicators -- Training program
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(1) The basic course offered by the training program shall consist of no less than forty (40) hours of instruction or training and shall consist of subjects appropriate for the basic training of law enforcement telecommunicators in the technique of emergency services communicatio…
KRS § 15.552 Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group -- Duties -- Meetings -- Sunset -- Members -- Development of new training delivery format -- Part-time telecommunicator training
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Sunset -- Members -- Development of new training delivery format -- Part- time telecommunicator training. (1) The Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group is hereby established as an independent entity to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator acade…
KRS § 15.560 Required completion of public safety telecommunicator academy or telecommunicator overview training -- Annual in-service training course
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telecommunicator overview training -- Annual in-service training course. (1) (a) All full-time public safety telecommunicators not previously certified as a telecommunicator by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council shall complete the full-time public safety telecommunicator academ…
KRS § 15.565 In-service training courses required of all telecommunicators with access to CJIS
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CJIS. (1) All telecommunicators who have access to CJIS shall successfully complete eight (8) hours of CJIS in-service training every year at a school certified or recognized by the Kentucky State Police CJIS Services Agency. (2) Extensions of time in which to complete the traini…
KRS § 15.570 Waiver of basic training program upon satisfactory completion of comparable program
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comparable program. The secretary of justice and public safety shall, with the approval of the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, waive the basic telecommunicator training program and certify applicants who furnish evidence of satisfactory completion of a basic law enforcement tel…
KRS § 15.580 Roster of certified telecommunicators
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The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet shall maintain a roster of all certified telecommunicators.
KRS § 15.585 Reciprocal agreements to provide telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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(1) A PSAP as defined by KRS 65.750 or an agency receiving or dispatching emergency medical service calls may enter into a reciprocal agreement with another PSAP, dedicated phone line, or call center to provide telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) utilizing nationally …
KRS § 15.590 Administrative regulations
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(1) KRS 15.530 to 15.590 shall be administered by the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, which shall promulgate administrative regulations as necessary regarding training, in-service training, and telecommunications practices. (2) The Kentucky Law Enforcement Council may, by admin…
KRS § 15.605 Definitions
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As used in KRS 15.610 to 15.635 unless the context requires otherwise: (1) "Inspection" means any regular, on-site investigation periodically conducted, or any request for information periodically solicited in lieu of an on-site investigation, by or on behalf of any public agency…
KRS § 15.610 Primary jurisdiction
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(1) No inspecting agency shall conduct an inspection or employ a standard relating to a condition over which another inspecting agency or the federal government has primary jurisdiction, except under an agreement with the entity having primary jurisdiction, or an order of the Att…
KRS § 15.620 Eliminating conflicts among standards
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(1) Effective January 1, 1977, no inspecting agency shall employ in its inspections any standard that conflicts with any other standard it employs in the same inspection or with standards employed by another inspecting agency or by the federal government. (2) Inspecting agencies …
KRS § 15.625 Appeal
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(1) Any person aggrieved by a determination of the Attorney General under KRS 15.610 to 15.620 may appeal the determination to the Franklin Circuit Court or to the Circuit Court of the county in which the appellant resides. The court, sitting without a jury, shall dispose of the …
KRS § 15.630 Injunctive relief against inspecting agency
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(1) If any inspecting agency conducts or threatens to conduct an inspection, or employs or threatens to employ a standard, in violation of KRS 15.605 to 15.635, the Attorney General, on his own initiative or upon a sworn complaint with good cause shown by any person aggrieved by …
KRS § 15.635 Effect on conflicting laws
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All sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes in conflict with KRS 15.605 to 15.630 are repealed to the extent that they are inconsistent with KRS 15.605 to 15.630.
KRS § 15.700 Unified and integrated prosecutor system established
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It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Commonwealth to encourage cooperation among law enforcement officers and to provide for the general supervision of criminal justice by the Attorney General as chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth, in order to maintain un…
KRS § 15.705 Prosecutors Advisory Council
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(1) For the purpose of administration of the unified prosecutorial system, there is hereby created the Prosecutors Advisory Council, hereafter referred to as the council. (2) The council shall consist of thirteen (13) members who shall be residents of Kentucky and shall include: …
KRS § 15.706 Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on sexual offenses involving minors
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minors. (1) The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall collect statistical data regarding the investigation, prosecution, dismissal, conviction, or acquittal of any person charged with committing, attempting to commit, or complicity to a sexual offense defined by KRS Chapter 510 invo…
KRS § 15.707 Subpoena power of Prosecutors Advisory Council
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The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall have the power to issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such records, books, papers, and documents as it may deem necessary for investigation of any matter that it is authorized to consider or reaso…
KRS § 15.708 Authority of Prosecutors Advisory Council to apply for and receive funds
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The Prosecutors Advisory Council may apply for and receive funds, public or private, for the purpose of assisting Commonwealth's and county attorneys in providing crime victim assistance or in criminal prosecution. The council may provide matching funds as a condition of any gran…
KRS § 15.710 Delegation of functions to Attorney General
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The council in its sole discretion may delegate the following functions to the Office of the Attorney General: (1) Prepare budget estimates of state appropriations necessary for the maintenance and operation of the unified prosecutorial system and make recommendations in respect …
KRS § 15.715 Intervention in criminal prosecutions by Attorney General -- Prosecution of complaint against local prosecutor -- Performance of duties of local prosecutor until vacancy filled
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complaint against local prosecutor -- Performance of duties of local prosecutor until vacancy filled. (1) In the event of the incapacity, refusal without sufficient grounds, inability, conflict of interest of the local prosecutor, or his failure to act in a certain case or cases,…
KRS § 15.717 Development of prosecutor's manual
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The Attorney General, in consultation with legal, victims services, victim advocacy, and mental health professionals with an expertise in domestic violence, shall develop a prosecutor's manual for Commonwealth's Attorneys and county attorneys establishing the policies and procedu…
KRS § 15.718 Training and continuing education for Commonwealth's attorneys and county attorneys and their staffs -- Completion requirements
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county attorneys and their staffs -- Completion requirements. (1) The Attorney General shall provide initial training courses and, at least once every two (2) years, continuing education courses for Commonwealth's attorneys and county attorneys and their staffs concerning: (a) Th…
KRS § 15.720 Reports
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(1) The Attorney General shall submit: (a) To the Governor and to the General Assembly a biennial report setting forth the activities of the unified prosecutorial system for the preceding fiscal years; to be included in this report are the activities of the Prosecutors Advisory C…
KRS § 15.725 Duties of Commonwealth's attorney and county attorneys -- Agreements to share or redistribute prosecutorial duties -- Circuit clerk's authority to issue criminal warrants
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share or redistribute prosecutorial duties -- Circuit clerk's authority to issue criminal warrants. (1) The Commonwealth's attorney shall attend each Circuit Court held in his judicial circuit. He shall, except as provided in KRS 15.715 and KRS Chapter 131, have the duty to prose…
KRS § 15.727 Duty of Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney to assist child sexual abuse multidisciplinary team
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abuse multidisciplinary team. Pursuant to KRS 431.600, each Commonwealth's attorney and each county attorney shall assist any child sexual abuse multidisciplinary team established in his circuit or county, unless the Prosecutors Advisory Council has voted to relieve him of this r…
KRS § 15.728 Notification to Office of Charitable Gaming of investigation or prosecution of violation of charitable gaming laws
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of violation of charitable gaming laws. All law enforcement agencies and investigative bodies shall notify the Office of Charitable Gaming of any investigation or prosecution of any violation of the charitable gaming laws as soon as reasonably possible after commencing the invest…
KRS § 15.730 Commonwealth's attorneys and county attorneys as special prosecutors
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Each regular Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney shall be, ex officio, a special prosecutor of the Commonwealth, and as such shall perform such duties and render such services, at such time and places, coextensive with the Commonwealth as may be required by the Attorney G…
KRS § 15.733 Disqualification of prosecuting attorney -- Appointment of a special prosecutor
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prosecutor. (1) For the purposes of this section the following words or phrases shall have the meaning indicated: (a) "Proceeding" includes pretrial, trial, appellate review, or other stages of litigation; (b) "Fiduciary" includes such relationships as executor, administrator, co…
KRS § 15.734 Disqualification of prosecuting attorney due to indictment on a felony charge -- Appointment of special prosecutor for duration of disqualification
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charge -- Appointment of special prosecutor for duration of disqualification. (1) In the event a Commonwealth's attorney or an assistant Commonwealth's attorney, or a county attorney or an assistant county attorney is indicted by a duly-empaneled state or federal grand jury on an…
KRS § 15.735 Disqualification -- Assignment of another prosecutor
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Upon certification by the Commonwealth's attorney and county attorneys to the Attorney General and for good cause shown that he, as the regular elected Commonwealth's attorney or county attorney, and his assistant or assistants, if any, should not participate in a particular pros…
KRS § 15.740 Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney not to represent accused
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The Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney shall not act as defense counsel in any criminal prosecution in any state or federal court in this Commonwealth, except in cases in which he is a party.
KRS § 15.745 Construction of KRS Chapter 15
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Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as eliminating or limiting any of the other duties of the Commonwealth's attorney or county attorney as set out in the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
KRS § 15.750 Budget -- Payment of office expenses -- Purchase of liability insurance
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(1) Each Commonwealth's attorney and each county attorney shall submit a proposed budget for his office to the Prosecutors Advisory Council to be included in the total budget of the unified prosecutorial system and submitted as part of the budget of the Office of the Attorney Gen…
KRS § 15.753 Indemnification from financial loss in legal actions for Attorney General, Commonwealth's attorneys, county attorneys, and their staffs
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Commonwealth's attorneys, county attorneys, and their staffs. (1) This section shall apply to: (a) The Attorney General and his or her staff; (b) A county attorney and his or her staff; and (c) A Commonwealth's attorney and his or her staff. (2) A person named in subsection (1) o…
KRS § 15.755 Compensation of Commonwealth's attorney and staff -- Monthly expense allowance -- Compensation adjusted -- Private law practice regulated
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allowance -- Compensation adjusted -- Private law practice regulated. (1) The compensation of each Commonwealth's attorney shall be paid out of the State Treasury. (2) The compensation of the staff of each Commonwealth's attorney shall be paid out of the State Treasury. (3) In ea…
KRS § 15.757 Procedure for voluntarily changing status from part-time to full-time Commonwealth's attorney
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Commonwealth's attorney. (1) (a) Any part-time Commonwealth's attorney may voluntarily become a full-time Commonwealth's attorney effective January 1, 1997, or at the beginning of any subsequent budget cycle by: 1. Not engaging in the private practice of law after the time he bec…
KRS § 15.760 Staff of Commonwealth's attorneys -- County's duty to provide grand jury and witness rooms -- Victim advocate
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and witness rooms -- Victim advocate. (1) Each Commonwealth's attorney shall, during the calendar year 1977 and through June 30, 1978, be entitled to at least the number of assistant Commonwealth's attorney positions, stenographic, secretarial, and clerical staff positions, and i…
KRS § 15.765 Salary of county attorney -- Expense allowance -- Compensation adjustment -- Private practice of law permitted
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-- Private practice of law permitted. (1) Each county attorney shall receive for prosecutorial duties an annual salary to be paid out of the State Treasury which shall be the total compensation as county attorney which he received during the calendar year 1976, but which in no ev…
KRS § 15.770 Assistant county attorneys, stenographers, secretaries, and other staff positions
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positions. (1) Each county attorney, with the approval of the Prosecutors Advisory Council, may appoint one (1) assistant county attorney for each District Judge in excess of one (1) in his judicial district unless prior approval is obtained from the Prosecutors Advisory Council …
KRS § 15.775 Educational programs on investigation and prosecution of crimes against the elderly
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the elderly. (1) The Prosecutors Advisory Council shall develop, in conjunction with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, educational programs on the investigation and prosecution of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of the elderly and other crimes against the elderly. (2) …
KRS § 15.800 Definitions for KRS 15.800 to 15.876
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As used in KRS 15.800 to 15.876, unless the context clearly dictates otherwise: (1) "Cabinet" shall mean the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; (2) "Consumer reporting agency" means any person or organization which, for monetary fees, dues, or on a cooperative nonprofit basi…
KRS § 15.802 Duties of Department of Child Support Services -- Processing of child support payments -- State disbursement unit -- Cooperation with courts and officials -- Reporting of obligors -- Denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses -- Data match system -- Subpoenas -- Distribution of child support program information
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support payments -- State disbursement unit -- Cooperation with courts and officials -- Reporting of obligors -- Denial, suspension, and revocation of licenses -- Data match system -- Subpoenas -- Distribution of child support program information. (1) The duties of the Department…
KRS § 15.804 Standardized forms for entry of state case registry information
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All forms, child support orders, wage withholding orders, or orders amending an existing child support order, entered in any case in Circuit Court, District Court, or family court that require entry into the state case registry under KRS 15.802(3) shall be entered on forms adopte…