Perhaps this is where the AlterNet article author got her information about a year in jail
The Kentucky Court of Appeals ruled that the statute is constitutional, but there was a dissenting opinion. Senior Judge Shake wrote:
More troublesome though, is that the statutes are located within a chapter of the Kentucky Revised Statutes which further states any person violating any provision of this chapter or any administrative regulation or order promulgated pursuant to this chapter for which another penalty is not specified shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor. KRS 39A.990. Therefore, failure to abide by the challenged statutes is a crime punishable by up to twelve months in the county jail.
Now, the fact that is it punishable by up to one year in jail does not mean that anyone violating the statute would in fact actually serve a year in jail. In fact, for a first offense, it is quite unlikely that they would get a year. But that potential is there.
However, this doesn't change the fact that the only person to whom the statute applies in the director of the Office of Homeland Security. Nobody else is in danger of prosecution under this statute.
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Oh, and the director wouldn't go to jail for not believing, but for not putting the plaque up, in the extraordinarily unlikely event of charges being brought and a conviction being obtained. And by extraordinarily unlikely, I mean no fucking way.
Edited by subbie, : As noted
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