KRS 421.550: No cause of action created -- Immunity of jailers or chief administrator

acting in good faith -- Indemnification -- Defense by Attorney General --

Immunity of attorney for state acting in good faith.

(1) Nothing in KRS 421.500 to 421.575, 15.245, or 196.280 creates a cause of action

for money damages against the state, a county, a municipality, or any of their

agencies, public officials, or employees.

(2) The jailer or chief administrator of a juvenile detention facility, regional jail, or

county jail, or any of their respective designees who acts in good faith in making

available the release information required by KRS 196.280, or in good faith fails or

is unable to provide the release information required by KRS 196.280, shall be

immune from any criminal liability.

(3) The jailer or chief administrator of a juvenile detention facility, regional jail, or

county jail, or any of their respective designees, who acts in good faith in making

available the release information required by KRS 196.280, or in good faith fails or

is unable to provide the release information required by KRS 196.280, and who is

sued for any act or omission in relation to KRS 196.280, and who has a judgment

rendered against him and who personally suffers actual financial loss, unreimbursed

from any source, by the enforcement and satisfaction of the judgment, including any

costs or attorney's fees awarded pursuant thereto, shall be indemnified by the

Commonwealth from funds appropriated to the Finance and Administration Cabinet

for the payment of judgments, to the extent of his actual financial loss. The

indemnification shall not be construed to abrogate or limit any privilege, immunity,

or matter of defense otherwise available to the person claiming indemnification and

shall not c onstitute a waiver of any privilege, immunity, or matter of defense,

including the sovereign immunity of the Commonwealth.

(4) The Attorney General shall defend the jailer, chief administrator, or designee upon

request, in any suit related to the provision of information under KRS 196.280.

(5) An attorney for the Commonwealth who acts in good faith in his or her ministerial

duties under KRS 421.500 to 421.575 shall be immune from criminal or civil

liability. The immunity shall not be construed to abrogate o r limit any privilege,

immunity, or matter of defense otherwise available and shall not constitute a waiver

of any privilege, immunity, or matter of defense, including the sovereign immunity

of the Commonwealth.