Kansas Committee on Government Efficiency reviews 3,254 portal submissions, plans monthly interim work

Senator Erickson, chair of the Committee on Government Efficiency, told members at an interim meeting that the committee had received 3,254 submissions to a public portal set up to gather Kansans’ ideas about improving state government.

The committee spent the session reviewing how the submissions were handled after open‑records requests and discussed priorities — notably improving transparency and interagency cooperation — that it will pursue in monthly interim meetings before the next legislative session.

The portal was opened to solicit ideas from Kansans about “how government works and runs,” Erickson said. Gordon Selle, adviser of statutes, told the committee staff had treated the entries as public records from the outset and that the office placed a warning on the submission page informing users of that status. “The submissions to the portal... would be public records,” Selle said, and staff reviewed each submission before releasing them in response to requests.

Selle said reviewers categorized submissions into three groups: those safe to release without change, those that required redaction of personally identifiable or sensitive third‑party information,…