KRS 156.210: Powers of chief state school officer.

(1) The chief state school officer shall have access to the papers, books and records of

all teachers, trustees, superintendents, or other public school officials.

(2) He may administer oaths and may examine witnesses under oath in any part of the

state in any matter pertaining to the public schools, and may cause the testimony to

be reduced to writing. He may issue process to compel attendance of witnesses

before him and compel witnesses to testify in any investigation he is authorized to

make.

(3) When he or his assistants find any mismanagement, misconduct, violation of law, or

wrongful or improper use of any district or state school fund, or neglect in the

performance of duty on the part of any official, he shall report the same, and any

other violation of t he school laws discovered by him, to the Kentucky Board of

Education, which shall, through the chief state school officer or one (1) of his

assistants, call in the county attorney or the Commonwealth's attorney in the county

or district where the violation occurs, and the attorney so called in shall assist in the

indictment, prosecution, and conviction of the accused. If prosecution is not

warrantable, the Kentucky Board of Education may rectify and regulate all such

matters.