196.280 Notification of release of person from penitentiary, facility for youthful offenders, regional jail, or county jail -- Escape. (1) (a) The Department of Corrections shall provide or contract with a private entity to provide to members of the public who have made a notification request, notification of the release of an incarcerated person from a penitentiary, as defined in KRS 197.010, facility for youthful offenders, regional jail, or county jail. The warden, jailer, or chief administrator, or a person designated by the warden, jailer, or chief administrator, of a penitentiary, facility for youthful offenders, regional jail, or county jail, shall make available to the Department of Corrections, or any private entity under contract with the Department of Corrections, the information necessary to implement this section in a timely manner and before the release of any incarcerated person from the penitentiary, facility for youthful offenders, regional jail, or county jail. The Department of Corrections or the private entity under contract with the Department of Corrections shall be responsible for retrieving the information and notifying the requester in accordance with administrative regulations promulgated by the Department of Corrections. (b) (c) If an incarcerated person escapes from any penitentiary, facility for youthful offenders, regional the warden, jailer, or chief administrator, or a person designated by the warden, jailer, or chief administrator, shall immediately provide the information necessary to implement this section. jail, or county jail, If, upon a hearing, a court releases an incarcerated person and the incarcerated person does not return to the penitentiary, facility for youthful offenders, regional jail, or county jail, the warden, jailer, or chief administrator, or a person designated by the warden, jailer, or chief administrator, shall provide the information necessary to implement this section as soon as practicable. (2) The Department of Corrections shall promulgate administrative regulations for the implementation of this section. Effective: July 12, 2006 History: Amended 2006 Ky. Acts ch. 182, sec. 20, effective July 12, 2006. -- Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 400, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000. -- Created 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 375, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996.
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