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KBI urges legislature to address dilapidated headquarters, lab and offender‑tracking upgrades
Summary
Kansas Bureau of Investigation leaders pressed for a modern headquarters and funding for lab equipment, a new offender‑registration system and child victim units, while the committee noted vacancy and budget tradeoffs.
Tony Mativi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Kyle Anderson, KLRD fiscal analyst, briefed the Ways and Means Committee on the KBI’s FY2025–26 budget requests and infrastructure needs, including a proposed replacement headquarters, laboratory investments and a statewide offender‑registration upgrade.
Mativi described the current headquarters building as a long‑standing operational liability. He said an independent needs assessment recommended about 35,000 square feet on a 7–9 acre footprint and estimated a new facility cost of roughly $115 million; he added that bringing the current facility up to code would cost an estimated $86 million. “The building we’re in is a liability,” Mativi told the committee, citing persistent water…
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