KENTUCKY — On this week’s In Focus Kentucky program, we’re sitting down with Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman, R-Ky. He is the Commonwealth’s 52nd person to serve in the elected position.
The Kentucky Supreme Court established that the Attorney General’s primary obligation is to the people and their Commonwealth – not any branch of government.
Established by Section 91 of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the Attorney General is a statewide elected official. The attorney general is elected for a term of four years, must be thirty years old and must have lived in Kentucky for two years. Also, in Section 92 of the Constitution, the attorney general must have been a practicing lawyer for eight years before his election.
Coleman introduced a newly formed role of Deputy Commissioner for Counter Exploitation to be led by Jeremy Murrell, who previously specialized in digital forensics within Kentucky State Police. Coleman says he is committed to protecting children and ending child abuse in the Commonwealth by investigating and prosecuting child abuse in all its forms.
“We want to target harden this Commonwealth from those predators that are seeking access to our kids....It’s not just a bureaucratic notation to say the creating a position of a deputy commissioner within our detective bureau, the Department of Criminal Investigations, DCI, to focus with a sense of urgency and leading our office and how we have a real impact here,” explained Coleman.
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