{"data":{"id":"us-ky/krs-422.290","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRS 422.290","heading":"Attendance of Department of Corrections personnel as witnesses in civil","body":"suits out of county -- Records provable by copy.\n(1) No officer or employee of the Department of Corrections shall be required to give\npersonal attendance as a witness in any civi l suit, arising from that person's\nemployment, out of the county in which his or her official workstation is situated,\nbut his or her deposition shall be taken in lieu thereof. However, in the court in\nwhich the civil action is pending, if the court finds that the witness is a necessary\nwitness for trial, the court may order the personal attendance of the witness at trial.\n(2) Subject to the approval of the court, the Department of Corrections records which\nrelate to supervision, custody, or confinement of an offender or which constitute an\noffender's medical charts or records that are susceptible to photostatic reproduction\nmay be proved as to foundation, identity, and authenticity, without any preliminary\ntestimony, by use of legible and durable copies cer tified by the employee of the\ndepartment charged with the responsibility of being the custodian of the originals\nthereof. The certification shall be signed before a notary public by the employee and\nshall include the full name of the offender and, for medi cal charts or records, the\noffender's medical record number and the number of pages in the medical record.\nThe certification shall also include a legend substantially to the following effect:\n\"The copies of records for which this certification is made are true and complete\nreproductions of the original or microfilmed records which are housed at (provide\nthe office, address, and phone number). The original records were made in the\nregular course of business, and it was the regular course of the Department of\nCorrections to make the records at or near the time of the matter recorded. This\ncertification is given by the custodian of the records in lieu of the custodian's\npersonal appearance.\"\n(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as a waiver of any priv ilege the\ndepartment may have relating to the records.","path":["KRS Chapter 422"],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=18139","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T20:59:39Z","sha256":"a53fd39c81090f6de4c9f876b4d215aa1da257e06b85e83da983bde8845a00ea","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/krs-422.287","next":"us-ky/krs-422.295"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}