The Kentucky Senate voted Wednesday to develop an deal with confidentiality program meant to give protection to home violence sufferers from their abusers.
The measure would construct on a restricted, little-used program that now can defend sufferers’ house addresses from voter rolls. If the invoice turns into legislation, this system can be expanded to masks their addresses on different publicly to be had govt data.
The invoice gained Senate passage on a 36-0 vote, sending it to the House.
Republican Sen. Julie Raque Adams, the invoice’s lead sponsor, stated the proposal would provide protections for sufferers of home violence, stalking and human trafficking.
“Motivated abusers and stalkers can easily access public government records, either directly or through various websites, often without charge, to find victims’ new addresses and contact information,” she stated.
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Republican Kentucky state Sen. Julie Raque Adams speaks at the flooring of the Senate Chamber on the state Capitol in Frankfort, Kentucky, on March 2, 2020. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston, File)
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The invoice would convey Kentucky’s efforts in step with 38 different states that supply complete systems to masks the house addresses of home abuse sufferers on public data. The invoice’s supporters have famous that Kentucky is plagued by means of probably the most country’s absolute best charges of home violence.
The Secretary of State’s place of business runs Kentucky’s deal with confidentiality program associated with voter rolls and it could administer the expanded program.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams praised the Senate vote to increase this system, pronouncing the state is “one step closer to ensuring that survivors of domestic violence can get the protection they deserve.” In his observation, Adams instructed the House to move the measure.
Senate Bill 79 is meant to increase this system’s accessibility.
Currently, sufferers acquiring court-issued protecting orders will have their addresses hidden when registering to vote. However, many sufferers don’t download the ones orders. The invoice would permit sufferers who signal a sworn observation to have their addresses protected from the wider record of data.
During a contemporary legislative committee listening to at the invoice, the secretary of state stated this system — created a decade in the past — had fewer than 50 other folks collaborating.
