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Kansas ABC director outlines licensing, enforcement updates to Committee on Federal and State Affairs
Summary
Debbie Beavers, director of Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control, told the committee about staffing, an online system upgrade, enforcement activity including a new "Operation Bloodhound" source-investigation program, and compliance and citation statistics for fiscal year 2025.
Debbie Beavers, director of the Kansas Alcoholic Beverage Control division, told the Committee on Federal and State Affairs on Jan. 26 that the agency has focused in the past year on improving customer service, expanding online licensing tools and strengthening enforcement programs.
Beavers said ABC has 41 full-time positions and one part-time enforcement investigator, with vacancies that include an assistant attorney general and an enforcement agent. She described four work units — administration, licensing, enforcement and legal — and said the division has emphasized education for licensees through on-site educational visits, stakeholder meetings and follow-up checks to reduce repeat violations.
The director described a recent technology upgrade that eliminated 17 paper forms, added fillable online fields, enabled electronic submission of amendments (for ownership or location changes) and allowed licensees to view and update license information and to pay gallonage taxes in the same portal. She said 96% of license…
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