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Committee amends and advances omnibus open-government bill with new obscenity exemption
Summary
The committee amended Senate Bill 70 to incorporate prior House CORA fee language, add an exemption for agency records that contain obscene material, clarify live-streaming expectations and remove a five‑minute post‑executive‑session grace period; the amended bill passed favorably out of committee.
The House Committee on Judiciary amended and passed Senate Bill 70 on Monday, an omnibus open-government measure that touches the Open Records Act (CORA), the Open Meetings Act (COMA) and related reporting requirements.
The committee’s amendment inserted language the House previously approved governing CORA fees and charges and added a new exemption to the Kansas Open Records Act: records of a public agency that “contain material that is obscene,” as defined in statute, will be exempt from disclosure. The chair said the change was requested by the attorney general’s office to avoid forcing agencies to produce…
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