15.706 Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on sexual offenses involving minors. - Kentucky Statutes

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Page 1 of 1 15.706 Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on sexual offenses involving 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 involving a minor, incest involving a minor, use of a minor in
a sexual performance, or unlawful transaction with a minor. (2) 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. (3) The council may contract with any other public agency to collect the data in lieu of collecting the data itself. (4) The Prosecutors Advisory Council may promulgate administrative regulations to specify information to be reported. (5) 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. (6) 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. (7) 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.
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. (8) 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 26, 2007
History: 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.