Lawmakers Consider Constables' Power

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...Representative Joni Jenkins has filed a bill that would abolish the constable's office in Kentucky. Jenkins says they serve civil warrants and do all sorts of things that are very helpful, but they have arrest power and the ability to carry a gun with none of the training. Jenkins knows her bill will receive resistance, but she says a more viable option was filed Wednesday that she co-sponsored in the House, which would give the authority to local fiscal courts as to the duties and the boundaries for constable. Representative Fred Nesler, who filed the new HB 437, says, at this point in time, it goes too far just to say we're going to do away with the office.