Eyewitness Identification Reform in Kentucky

In 2015, the Kentucky League of Cities (KLC) released a model policy for eyewitness identification procedures. The model policy includes: blind administration, proper use of fillers, proper instructions to the witness, witness confidence statements, and the recordation of identification procedure as well as the preservation of those recordings. The KLC policy also includes procedure for show up identifications. Adopted: 2015.

Read the model policy.

 

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