2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 17 - PUBLIC SAFETY .131 Kentucky Unified Criminal Justice Information System -- Committee to design and implement system -- Uniform policy -- Duties -- Automated warrant system -- Denial of funds upon failure of agency or officer to participate in system.
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17.131 Kentucky Unified Criminal Justice Information System -- Committee to
design and implement system -- Uniform policy -- Duties -- Automated warrant
system -- Denial of funds upon failure of agency or officer to participate in
system.
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There is hereby established the Kentucky Unified Criminal Justice Information
System, referred to in this chapter as the "system." The system shall be a joint effort
of the criminal justice agencies, the Courts of Justice, and the Office of Homeland
Security. Notwithstanding any statutes, administrative regulations, and policies to
the contrary, if standards and technologies other than those set by the
Commonwealth Office of Technology are required, the executive director of the
Commonwealth Office of Technology shall review, expedite, and grant appropriate
exemptions to effectuate the purposes of the unified criminal justice information
system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to hamper any public officer or
official, agency, or organization of state or local government from furnishing
information or data that they are required or requested to furnish and which they are
allowed to procure by law, to the General Assembly, the Legislative Research
Commission, or a committee of either. For the purposes of this section, "criminal
justice agencies" include all departments of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet
except the Department for Public Advocacy, the Unified Prosecutorial System,
Commonwealth's attorneys, county attorneys, the Transportation Cabinet, the
Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and any agency with the authority to issue
a citation or make an arrest.
The program to design, implement, and maintain the system shall be under the
supervision of the executive director of the Office of Homeland Security, in
consultation with the executive director of the Commonwealth Office of
Technology and the Administrative Office of the Courts.
The executive director of the Office of Homeland Security, the executive director of
the Commonwealth Office of Technology, and a representative of the
Administrative Office of the Courts, or their respective designees, shall be
responsible for recommending standards, policies, and other matters to the secretary
of justice and public safety for promulgation of administrative regulations in
accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to implement the policies, standards, and other
matters relating to the system and its operation.
The uniform policy shall include a system to enable the criminal justice agencies
and the courts to share data stored in each other's information systems. Initially, the
uniform policy shall maximize the use of existing databases and platforms through
the use of a virtual database created by network linking of existing databases and
platforms among the various departments. The uniform policy shall also develop
plans for the new open system platforms before the existing platforms become
obsolete.
All criminal justice and participating public safety agencies shall follow the policies
established by administrative regulation for the exchange of data and connection to
the system.
The executive director of the Commonwealth Office of Technology shall review
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how changes to existing criminal justice agency applications impact the new
integrated network. Changes to criminal justice agency applications that have an
impact on the integrated network shall be coordinated through and approved by the
executive director of the Office of Homeland Security, in consultation with the
Commonwealth Office of Technology.
Any future state-funded expenditures by a criminal justice agency for computer
platforms in support of criminal justice applications shall be reviewed by the Office
of Homeland Security and the Commonwealth Office of Technology.
As part of the unified criminal justice information system, the executive director of
the Office of Homeland Security, in consultation with the secretary of the Justice
and Public Safety Cabinet, the executive director of the Commonwealth Office of
Technology, and the Administrative Office of the Courts, shall design and
implement an automated warrant system. The automated warrant system shall be
compatible with any similar system required by the federal government for
inclusion of state information in federal criminal justice databases.
Any criminal justice and public safety agency that does not participate in the system
may be denied access to state and federal grant funds.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 79, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 42, effective June 20, 2005; and ch. 99, sec. 89, effective
June 20, 2005. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 506, sec. 12, effective July 14, 2000;
and ch. 536, sec. 12, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 606, sec.
28, effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/26/2007). Although 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85,
sec. 79, contains a reference to the "Department of Public Advocacy," the entity
created by 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, secs. 7 and 40, and Executive Order 2006-805 is
the "Department for Public Advocacy." In accordance with 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85,
sec. 335, and KRS 7.136, the erroneous reference in this section has been corrected
in codification.
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