Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Kansas Legal Services tells Senate panel expungement clinics and driver-license work need steady funding
Summary
Kansas Legal Services asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to continue funding statewide expungement clinics and to modestly expand support for driver’s-license restoration, saying clinics rely on a $200,000 legislative appropriation and that state funding and volunteer lawyers sustain services across 105 counties.
Kansas Legal Services executive director Matthew Keenan told the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 26 that his nonprofit provides civil legal help across all 105 counties and relies on a mix of state and federal funding to offer services including expungement clinics that he said help Kansans re-enter the workforce.
Keenan said KLS receives about $2,100,000 from the state and about $3,000,000 from federal grants and highlighted a $200,000 legislative appropriation that supports expungement clinics. "We are…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
