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15.706 Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on sexual offenses
involving minors.
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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 involving a minor, human trafficking
offenses involving a minor engaged in commercial sexual activity, incest
involving a minor, use of a minor in a sexual performance, or unlawful
transaction with a minor.
Each Commonwealth's attorney, each county attorney, the secretary of the
Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the commissioner of the Department of
Kentucky State Police, each Circuit Court clerk, and the Administrative Office of
the Courts shall provide any data requested by the council for this purpose, on
a form prescribed by the council, at intervals as the council may direct.
The council may contract with any other public agency to collect the data in lieu
of collecting the data itself.
The Prosecutors Advisory Council may promulgate administrative regulations
to specify information to be reported.
The information required to be reported by this section shall be provided by
each Commonwealth's attorney and county attorney at the end of each quarter
of the calendar year or as otherwise directed by the Prosecutors Advisory
Council.
The Prosecutors Advisory Council and the Office of the Attorney General shall
compile the information by county and issue a public report at least annually.
The public report shall not contain the name or identifying information of a
victim or person not formally charged with the commission of child sexual
abuse or human trafficking of a child. Information collected by the
Commonwealth's attorney or county attorney or by the Prosecutors Advisory
Council containing data which cannot be published shall be excluded from
inspection, unless by court order, from the Open Records Law.
Any Commonwealth's attorney or any county attorney who fails to report
information as defined by this section or administrative regulation shall be
subject to salary reduction as authorized by KRS 61.120.
Effective:June 25, 2013
History: Amended 2013 Ky. Acts ch. 25, sec. 15, effective June 25, 2013. -Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 33, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 82, effective June 20, 2005. -- Amended 1998 Ky.
Acts ch. 426, sec. 66, effective July 15, 1998. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 264,
sec. 4, effective July 15, 1994.
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