Police, City and County Legislation - Kentucky

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to allow local law enforcement agencies to enter into agreements with the federal government to enforce immigration law; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the State Police to enter into an agreement with the federal government to enforce immigration law and to form a Kentucky State Police Illegal Alien Task Force; Create several new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from employee illegal aliens, to create a graduated loss of business license or charter scheme for those found to have done so after January 1, 2009, and to require utilization of a federal work authorization verification system; amend KRS 514.160 to include with the offense of identity theft the theft of identity by an unauthorized alien for the purpose of obtaining employment; create a noncodified section to create a Employer Sanctions Task Force to study the system of employer sanction relative to the employment of unauthorized aliens to operate during [...]

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Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 514.160 relating to identity theft to increase the number of pieces of identifying information, include use of false identification to deprive a person of money, obtain employment, hide one's true identity, cause another person to suffer economic loss, defraud another person, or attempt, solicit, or conspire to commit identity theft; create a new section of KRS Chapter 441 to require pretrial release officers to obtain place of birth, citizenship, and related information from prisoners in jail and report the information to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and Administrative Office of the Courts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39G to expand the duties of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security with regard to immigration, customs, and other homeland security matters; create a new section of KRS 15.380 to 15.404 to permit local and state law enforcement agencies to enter into agreements with the federal government for local enforcement of immigration [...]

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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 433 to require junkyards and other purchasers of ferrous and nonferrous metals and objects containing ferrous and nonferrous metals to keep records of transactions, report the transactions to law enforcement, and take other actions with regard to the purchases; establish the crime of failure to maintain a register of purchases of metals and objects containing metal; establish the crime of unlawful acts relating to the purchase or disposition of metals; establish the crime of providing fraudulent identification for the sale of metals; provide that failure to keep a register of metals purchased is prima facie evidence that the purchaser knew that the purchase was in violation of KRS 514.110, relating to receiving stolen property; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to provide concurrent jurisdiction for investigation and prosecution of violations of purchase-of-metals laws in the Attorney General and Commonwealth's and county attorneys; amend KRS 365.[...]

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