Police, State 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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Amend KRS 224.01-410 to define "clandestine methamphetamine lab," "contaminated property," and "decontamination standards"; permit the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to establish a tiered response system for methamphetamine-contaminated properties and to promulgate administrative regulations for decontamination standards; require local or state law enforcement to conduct the initial sampling of an inhabitable property site and direct the Department of the State Police to promulgate administrative regulations; permit the property owner of a inhabitable property site to consult decontamination and remediation service providers not listed on the cabinet's certified contractor list, if the initial sampling result is not assessed as a Tier 3 or higher contamination; require that inhabitable property not be deemed habitable unless the decontamination standard is met; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to create the tiered response system for methamphetamine-contaminated [...]

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Amend KRS 510.155, relating to using a communications system to procure a minor to engage in sexual offenses, to add to "minor" "any individual the person has reason to believe is a minor" to the elements of the offense; amend KRS 508.130 to include in the definitions used for Kentucky's stalking offenses stalking activity that is done electronically; amend KRS 531.010 and 531.300 to include live images transmitted over the Internet within material subject to the standards of Kentucky's obscenity laws; amend KRS 17.500 to create definitions for "electronic identity or online membership information" and "substantial change in appearance" and amend the definition of "registrant information" to require registrants on the sex offender registry to disclose more information; amend KRS 17.510 to require a new photograph of registrant if there is a substantial change in appearance; create provisions governing when a registrant changes or creates an electronic identity or online membership; amend [...]

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