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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in KRS 532.210 to 532.250, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Home” means the temporary or permanent residence of a defendant consisting of the actual living area. If more than one (1) residence or family is located on a single piece of property, “home” does not include the residence of any other person who is not part of the social unit formed by the defendant's immediate family. A hospital, nursing care facility, hospice, half-way house, group home, residential treatment facility, or boarding house may serve as a “home” under this section;
(2) “Home incarceration” means the use of a monitoring device approved by the commissioner of the Department of Corrections to facilitate a prisoner's ability to maintain gainful employment or to participate in programs approved as a condition of his or her incarceration, or both, using the person's home for purposes of confinement;
(3) “Violent felony offense” means an offense that would classify a person as a violent offender under KRS 439.3401;
(4) “Terminal illness” means a medically recognized disease for which the prognosis is death within six (6) months to a reasonable degree of medical certainty; and
(5) “Approved monitoring device” means an electronic device or apparatus which is capable of recording, tracking, or transmitting information as to the prisoner's location or verifying the prisoner's presence or non-presence in the home, or both. The devices shall be minimally intrusive. Devices shall not be used without the prisoner's knowledge to record or transmit:
(a) Visual images other than the defendant's face;
(b) Oral or wire communications or any auditory sound other than the defendant's voice; or
(c) Information as to the prisoner's activities while inside the home.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Kentucky Revised Statutes Title L. Kentucky Penal Code § 532.200.Definitions for KRS 532.210 to 532.250 - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/ky/title-l-kentucky-penal-code/ky-rev-st-sect-532-200/
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