(1) The Department of Kentucky State Police, Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, and the Administrative Office of the Courts shall provide access to their databases and the centralized criminal history record information system and the data contained therein to other criminal justice agencies, including criminal justice statistical analysis centers, and to the Legislative Research Commission. The right of access granted herein shall not include the right to add to, delete, or alter data without permission of the agency holding the data.
(2) Criminal justice agencies and the Legislative Research Commission shall not make public information on an individual person’s criminal history record where such record is protected by state or federal law or regulation.
(3) The Legislative Research Commission shall have access to information which does not identify an individual person when determined by the director of the Legislative Research Commission to be necessary for a legislative purpose.
(4) The Legislative Research Commission shall have access to individual persons’ criminal history records subject to the following provisions:
(a) Access shall not include information on federal offenses or convictions; (b) Access shall not include information on out-of-state convictions; and
(c) Requests for the release of the information shall be approved by the
Legislative Research Commission by vote at a meeting of the Commission.
Effective: June 26, 2007
History: Amended 2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 2, effective June 26, 2007. — Amended
2005 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 73, effective June 20, 2005. — Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 606, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1998. — Amended 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 211, sec. 2, effective July 14, 1992. — Created 1986 Ky. Acts ch. 389, sec. 4, effective July 15,
1986.