KRS 441.115: Jail staff training program -- Jailer's training expense for allowance --

Eligibility for allowance.

(1) For the purpose of raising the level of competence of jailers and jail personnel, the

department shall maintain a jail staff training progr am to provide training for jailers

and jail personnel consistent with the standards promulgated pursuant to KRS

441.055 and shall keep records of jailers and jail personnel who satisfactorily

complete basic and annual continuing education. The training program shall include

training on communicable diseases. A curriculum advisory committee composed of

jailers, their representatives, and recognized professionals in the field of jail

administration shall advise the department concerning the training needs of jailers

and jail personnel. The jail staff training program shall be directed and staffed by

knowledgeable persons who have sufficient experience, training, and education in

jail operations. The department shall not charge a fee for training jailers, their

deputies, or jailers-elect.

(2) Beginning in August, 1982, each jailer shall receive an expense allowance to help

defray the costs of his participation in the jail staff training program. The expense

allowance shall be in the amount of three hundred dolla rs ($300) per month payable

out of the State Treasury. Expense allowance payments shall be discontinued if the

jailer fails to satisfactorily complete annual continuing training. Expense allowance

payments shall be resumed following a discontinuance for fa ilure to satisfactorily

complete basic or annual training only upon the jailer's satisfactory completion of

the training.

(3) The allowance authorized in subsections (2) and (4) of this section shall be

considered as operating expenses of the jailer's office and shall not be considered as

part of his compensation. Jailers shall not be required to keep records verifying the

expenditures from the allowance provided by the state.

(4) In order to receive the expense allowance for their first year in office, jai lers who

have been elected to office for the first time, shall, before taking office, successfully

complete a training program designed for new jailers and conducted by the

personnel of the jail staff training program. This provision shall not apply if the

jailer-elect is ill and unable to complete the training before taking office. In such

cases, the jailer -elect shall successfully complete a new jailer training program

during his first year in office in order to receive the expense allowance. The county

or urban-county government in which the jailer -elect serves shall pay out of the jail

budget, once he takes office, all necessary and reasonable travel expenses incurred

by the jailer-elect in attending the new jailer training program.

(5) All jailers shall successfully complete the training required. If a jailer does not

successfully complete the required training within the time specified, he or she shall

not receive the expense allowance specified in subsection (2) of this section until he

or she successfully completes the required training.