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Data protection in United States — Kentucky

Personal data, privacy, cybersecurity duties, processing, and cross-border transfers. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 42.738 Statewide public safety interoperability plan -- Annual report by executive director -- Duties of Kentucky Wireless Interoperability Executive Committee -- Membership -- Public Safety Working Group.

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  The executive director must create and run a statewide public safety interoperability plan, and the committee must review wireless communications plans and help guide standards and funding.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 209A.122 Definitions for section -- Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center -- Duties -- Information to be sent by Kentucky State Police, Administrative Office of the Courts, and Cabinet for Health and Family Services. (Effective until July 15, 2026)

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  This section defines key terms and requires the center to collect domestic violence data and issue an annual report by July 1.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 349.070 Powers of Coalbed Methane Well Review Board to take actions necessary to prevent waste and protect rights of owners -- Objections by holders, lessors, and lessees -- Hearings.

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  The review board can create or change drilling units, field rules, and unitization for coalbed methane, and it must issue a written order on requests.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 61.791 Definitions for KRS 61.791 to 61.799.

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  This section defines key terms used in KRS 61.791 to 61.799.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 600.010 Title and intent of KRS Chapters 600 to 645.

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  This section names KRS Chapters 600 to 645 as the Kentucky Unified Juvenile Code and states policy goals for juvenile proceedings, including child protection, family support, treatment, accountability, and fair hearings.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 7A.255 Annual report of information on state-administered retirement systems' members and recipients of retirement allowances -- Protection of members' and recipients' identities -- Report to Public Pension Oversight Board -- Investment procurement policy -- Annual report on disability payments -- Annual report on employer pay credits.

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  State-administered retirement systems must file annual reports with the Public Pension Oversight Board and must not include members’ names, addresses, or Social Security numbers.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 214.420 Records declared confidential -- Application.

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  Records and reports about sexually transmitted disease cases are confidential, and only assigned health department or Cabinet personnel may access them.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 209A.122 Definitions for section -- Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center -- Duties -- Policy recommendations -- Information to be sent by Kentucky State Police, Administrative Office of the Courts, and Cabinet for Health and Family Services. (Effective July 15, 2026)

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  The center must collect domestic violence-related information and file an annual report by July 1 each year to several named recipients. Kentucky State Police, the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the cabinet must each provide specific data to the center; ZeroV may send best-practice and policy recommendations

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 61.933 Notification of personal information security breach -- Investigation -- Notice to affected individuals of result of investigation -- Personal information not subject to requirements -- Injunctive relief by Attorney General.

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  Agencies that learn of a personal information security breach must notify specified officials quickly, investigate the breach, and sometimes notify affected individuals and other entities.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 216.890 Administrative regulations.

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  The Cabinet for Health and Family Services must adopt regulations to implement these statutes by July 1, 1989, and those regulations must include reasonable and fair standards.

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  KRS § 14.302 Safe at Home Program -- Designated addresses -- Program open to victims of specified offenses -- Criminal history background check and fingerprinting of Secretary of State employees administering program. (Effective until January 1, 2027)

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  The Safe at Home Program is created in the Secretary of State’s office, allows designated addresses for eligible victims, and requires fingerprint checks for certain staff.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 65.7630 Gathering and reporting information regarding 911 emergency communications funding and costs -- Annual report to board by agencies and providers -- Administrative regulations -- Information subject to disclosure under Open Records Act and information subject to confidentiality -- Report to Legislative Research Commission.

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  The board must collect and report 911 funding and cost information each year, and CMRS providers and certain agencies must supply specified reports and data.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 218A.390 Prescription Monitoring Program Compact.

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  This compact lets member states share prescription data securely, while requiring authentication and security rules and limiting how received data may be stored and used.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 514.160 Theft of identity.

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  A person commits identity theft by knowingly using or possessing another person’s identifying information with the intent to impersonate that person for certain harmful or beneficial purposes.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 40.310 Duties of Department of Veterans' Affairs.

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  The Department of Veterans' Affairs must gather and share veterans services information, help veterans prove and establish claims and benefits, keep records, report annually, and manage the veterans' program trust fund; the commissioner may also buy liability insurance and the department may accept gifts and grants.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 49.230 Official records of proceedings of Board of Tax Appeals public in nature -- Exception -- Appeal procedure.

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  The Board of Tax Appeals must keep the official appeal record, and most proceedings records are public unless the unmined-mineral exception applies. Confidential records and related testimony must not be disclosed outside the appeals process, and a protective order must stay in effect.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 218A.172 Administrative regulations on prescribing or dispensing of Schedule II controlled substance -- Continuing course of treatment -- Recordkeeping -- Exemptions. (Effective July 15, 2026)

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  Practitioners must do specific checks, planning, counseling, consent, and recordkeeping before and during prescribing or dispensing Schedule II controlled substances; some exemptions may be allowed by regulation.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 218A.172 Administrative regulations on prescribing or dispensing of Schedule II controlled substance or Schedule III controlled substance containing hydrocodone -- Continuing course of treatment -- Recordkeeping -- Exemptions. (Effective until July 15, 2026)

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  Before first prescribing or dispensing certain controlled substances, a practitioner must do specified checks, documentation, counseling, and consent steps; ongoing treatment has extra review and recordkeeping duties, with some exemptions allowed.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 335.135 Social Work Licensure Compact.

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  This provision creates a Social Work Licensure Compact to let qualified social workers practice across member states under a multistate license.

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• United States — Kentucky

  KRS § 197.290 Kentucky Community and Technical College System Prison Education Program -- Location -- Program availability to inmates -- Responsibilities of department and KCTCS -- Administrative regulations -- Program requirements. (Effective July 15, 2026)

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  Kentucky creates a prison education program at Northpoint Training Center and assigns the department and KCTCS specific setup and operating duties.

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