A. “Interview” means an investigation of a defendant for the purposes of pretrial release or pretrial supervision.

B. “Investigation” means a Pretrial Services investigation containing CourtNet and NCIC records, charge information, personal information and demographics, probation status, address, and application of the PSA Risk Assessment (See Appendix A).

C. “Non-Financial Uniform Schedule of Bail” means the authority granted by the court to a pretrial officer to apply a pre-determined release decision to detained defendants based on a uniform schedule of bail without the need for a judicial review.

D. “Public Safety Assessment (PSA) Risk Assessment” means the validated risk assessment tool used in Kentucky, containing questions relating to risk of flight or failure to appear and risk of anticipated criminal conduct or new criminal activity.

E. “Risk Assessment” means an objective, research based, validated assessment tool that measures a defendant's risk of flight or failure to appear and risk of anticipated criminal conduct or new criminal activity while on pretrial release pending adjudication.

F. “Risk scores” means the numeric values ranging from a low of ‘0’ to a high of ‘7’ that relates proportionally to the defendant's likelihood of failure to appear (FTA) and from a low of ‘0’ to a high of ‘13’ that relates proportionally to the defendant's likelihood of new criminal activity (NCA) pending adjudication.

G. “Risk level” means a scale from low to high of the risk a defendant poses of pretrial failure (e.g., failure to appear or presenting a danger to the community).

H. “Sexual Offenses” means any offense defined as sexual under Kentucky Revised Statutes and those listed by Pretrial Services as sexual for purposes of Pretrial release (See Appendix C).

I. “Verification” means matching a defendant's identity with an official record.

J. “Verified and eligible defendant” means a defendant who is charged with a bailable offense and whose identity Pretrial Services is able to confirm through investigation.

K. “Violent Offenses” means any offense defined as violent under Kentucky Revised Statutes and those listed by Pretrial Services as violent for purposes of Pretrial release (See Appendix B).