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KBI seeks recurring operating funds, staffing steps and an equipment replacement fund
Summary
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation presented three FY27 enhancement requests — $885,545 for operating the Pittsburgh Regional Law Enforcement Center, $750,000 to seed an equipment replacement fund, and $229,386 for career progression step increases — and detailed aging lab equipment and recruitment/retention challenges for scientists and agents.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation requested three separate enhancements for FY27 at its appropriations hearing: $885,545 for annual operating costs at the Pittsburgh Consolidated Regional Law Enforcement Center, $750,000 to start a forensic equipment rehab and replacement fund, and $229,386 to fund step increases under the statutory career progression plan for agents and forensic scientists.
Tony Mativi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, told the committee the Pittsburgh center will be a multi-agency hub housing KBI zone offices, campus police, the highway patrol, Attorney General task-force staff and a small laboratory. "It's a collaborative venture that I truly believe is going to have a generational impact on that part of the state," Mativi said, while acknowledging the operating request would recur in future budgets.
Mativi also flagged an aging inventory of laboratory instruments: "There is over $13,000,000…
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