A Kentucky Senate committee advanced a bill Thursday to expand an address confidentiality program intended to protect domestic violence victims from their abusers.
The measure builds on a limited, little-utilized program that shields victims’ home addresses from voter rolls. The program would be broadened to mask their addresses on other publicly available government records if the bill becomes law.
Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams said Thursday that the greater protections are needed in a state plagued by one of the nation’s highest rates of domestic violence. The Secretary of State’s office would administer the expanded program. “I think that we will broaden the pool of people who can access this program,” said Republican Sen. Julie Raque Adams, the bill’s lead sponsor,
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