The court appearance follows a series of WDRB investigations into the Todd Walls case.
KSP so frequently encountered questionable expungements from judges that the agency wrestled with how to handle the problem, according to former high-level officials and emails obtained by WDRB News.
Jefferson County Commonwealth's Attorneys will be allowed to access sealed court records in an effort to investigate how the former officer got his guilty plea overturned and erased.
A Jefferson County judge in 2015 set aside a law enforcement officer's conviction for a sex crime involving a child, a key action now that the officer is trying to keep his badge despite a new Kentucky law forbidding people with convictions for misdemeanor sex crimes from having police powers.
Todd Walls, a now-former court deputy with the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office, pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct in 1996. He was accused of having an ongoing sexual relationship with a 15-year-old girl.
Todd Walls was charged with rape in 1996. He's still a deputy sheriff in Jefferson County.
HB 206 is part of a series of bills passed by the legislature in recent years to force out officers who shamed the badge.
A failed attempt by the former chief of the West Buechel Police Department to get his old job back inadvertently threw back the curtains on something else.