15.706 Prosecutors Advisory Council to collect data on sexual offenses involving

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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, human trafficking offenses involving a

minor engaged in commercial sexual activity or forced labor, 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 or human

trafficking of a child. 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.