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Kansas emergency management briefs committee on World Cup planning, disaster declarations and funding uncertainty
Summary
Angie Morgan, director of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management, told the Joint Committee on Kansas Security that Kansas has been engaged in intergovernmental World Cup security planning but warned funding timing and a statutory 15-day limit on the governor—s emergency declaration complicate sustained state-level operations.
Angie Morgan, director of the Kansas Division of Emergency Management, briefed the Joint Committee on Kansas Security on the state—s preparations for the 2026 World Cup and on recent disaster-response work. Morgan said Kansas has been meeting regularly with Missouri and metro counties on multistate planning and that Kansas has been involved in World Cup security planning since the start of the effort.
Morgan told the committee the state—s concerns include law enforcement staffing nationwide, competing demands from other major events and the recurring hazard…
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