Victim Information and Notification Everyday
History of V.I.N.E.
In December 1994, Jefferson County established the nation's first automated victim notification system in response to the brutal murder in Louisville of Mary Byron one year earlier. Her former boyfriend had kidnapped and raped her and had been incarcerated in the Jefferson County Jail. Fearing that he might pose a danger to her, Mary and her parents had asked to be notified if he were released. The jail officials failed to notify them, and he murdered her on her twenty-first birthday.
In 1996, Kentucky Department of Corrections implemented the Victim Information and Notification (V.I.N.E.) System, making Kentucky the first state in the nation to provide this service on a statewide basis. The system receives booking and release data from all the county jails and DOC institutions. A toll free number is available to victims for obtaining information about an offender's custody status, sentence expiration date, and scheduled parole hearing date, and for registering to be notified when there is a change in that offender's custody status.
To look up an offender and register for notification in the event the Custody Status of that offender changes, click here V.I.N.E. 
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