Yesterday we told you about one state lawmakers idea for correctional change following the early release of Ronald Otis.

He fatally stabbed six year old Logan Tipton in sales in 2015.

Exodus was found not guilty by reason of insanity for Logan's murder, but he was convicted of assaulting members of Tipton's family.

Tonight, our Emily Sisk spoke with another state lawmaker who says he wants to keep criminals like Santas off the streets.

We are joined now by Representative Jason Namus.

We so appreciate your time and we want to jump in and go ahead and start with this piece of legislation that you would like to file for the upcoming session.

We know this is related to the case of Logan Tipton, the six year old from sales who was stabbed to death.

Representative Namus, can you start by telling us about this legislation and how it came about?

So Logan's law is going to try to address some of the problems that we've had or that we've experienced in this situation.

It's going to try to improve the notifications, to the families and to the victims when there is going to be a release of a criminal.

It's also going to, change the law if you're not guilty by reason of insanity.

But you've done the crime, then I understand the law doesn't allow you to go to prison, but we cannot allow you to just walk.

And so you need to go to a maximum security mental health institution.

And so that's, another change here in this situation.

The criminal was the was found not guilty by reason of insanity for stabbing and killing Logan, a beautiful six year old boy.

Also, in in my view, my review of this, the insanity defense in Kentucky is one of the broadest in the country.

We don't want to be one of the broadest in the country.

Four states have gotten rid of their insanity defense.

So we're going to discuss whether to do that.

But even if we don't do that, we need to tighten down, the insanity defense in in Kentucky.

I want to ask you, you know, a Republican colleague had kind of made the comment that in this case, in Tom's and other cases, the insanity defense is kind of used as a get out of jail free card.

Was the quote there?

What's your take?

Do you agree with that?

Well, yeah, and I don't I agree with that.

And and I don't understand what happened here and I don't think anybody does.

It doesn't make sense that you can have insanity for the murder, but not for the assaults that occurred simultaneously.

Your legislation would be called Logan's Law, of course, in honor of Logan Tipton.

You mentioned this, but I want to ask, have you gotten to talk with the family or heard their thoughts about the legislation?

I have, yes.

I talked to the father the first thing I did.

I can't imagine what this family had to go through.

And so I immediately, wanted to talk to Mr.

Tipton.

A couple other of his family members were on the call as well.

And, and he is, he's allowing us to call it Logan's law to honor, his son in that way.

Can't bring it back, obviously, but, it can hopefully do things one to protect us against this individual criminal, but also protect families in the future.

Lawyer Jason Amos, we thank you for telling us about Logan's law, and we will keep our eyes on it for the upcoming session.

Thank you.

Emily.

Another Republican state representative, TJ Roberts, says he would like to file legislation to prevent juries from giving split insanity verdicts, which is what happened in the Ronald Exondys case.

You can learn more about that proposed bill by checking out yesterday's episode of Kentucky Edition Online on demand@ct.org.