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Updated: 5:40 PM Nov 6, 2009
Ankle monitors for DVO offenders? Amanda's Law heard in committee
It's designed to give victims of domestic violence fair warning if an offender wearing an ankle bracelet monitor is in the area. Posted: 5:38 PM Nov 6, 2009Reporter: Dave Spencer Email Address: dave.spencer@wkyt.com |
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Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo is calling for a new law that would allow courts to force some domestic violence offenders to wear ankle bracelets that track their movements and warn possible victims when they're in harms way.
The proposal was prompted by the killing of a Lexington woman who allegedly was shot to death by one of Stumbo's previous House colleagues, former state Rep. Steve Nunn. Stumbo says the 29-year-old Ross may have had "a fighting chance" had the law been in place.
Nunn has pleaded not guilty.
Stumbo is hoping to change state law shortly after the General
Assembly session begins in January.
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Posted by: Connie
Location: Knox County
on Nov 6, 2009 at 09:53 PM
I am grateful that something finally has been done and I am sorry for Ms. Ross and her family, but what about all the other women before her? Did they not matter? Legislators will not do anything until it hits close to home. Do you really think anything would have ever been done if it had not involved one of their own? No, it would not. Women in Kentucky really need to pull together and research these politicians before they vote and see how many are for women's rights in this state, until then we will continue to be invisible until something happens to one of theirs.
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Posted by: Jerry
Location: Lex
on Nov 6, 2009 at 06:57 PM
If a person wants to get at someone bad enough, they will merely cut off that little ankle bracelet and go after them. This law is only good for the people who will abide by it.
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Posted by: Anonymous
on Nov 6, 2009 at 06:15 PM
oh please, another politician jumps on the bandwagon to get a victim-named law that help him get re-elected.
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