Kansas Legislature’s supermajority makes mockery of open records law over efficiency portal messages

Kansas Legislature’s supermajority makes mockery of open records law over efficiency portal messages

Sen. Renee Erickson chats on the Senate floor during the April 10, 2025, veto session. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)Since the 1980s, the Kansas Open Records Act has mandated that all public agencies, including the Legislature, produce public records either within three business days or “as soon as possible” in response to requests for records. But the current Legislature seems to believe those words mean “whenever we feel like it.” And for al…

Max Kautsch: Kansas Legislature’s supermajority makes mockery of open records law over efficiency portal messages (Column)

"This iteration of the Legislature seems to think it is entitled to redact information that could traditionally be found in a phonebook, and that it may do so in a futile attempt to shield the identity of a handful of powerful Kansans but not the rest of us," Max Kautsch writes in this Kansas Reflector column. Continue reading ...