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Ways and Means rejects $3 million hearing-protection proviso but approves AI RFP for Attorney General
Summary
The Senate Ways and Means Committee voted down a $3 million request for hearing-protection devices for law enforcement but approved an $830,000 RFP to buy AI software for the Attorney General's Inspector General to flag potential fraud, waste and abuse.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee rejected a $3 million proviso to supply hearing-protection devices to state law enforcement and to fund grants for local agencies, but approved a separate request to fund artificial-intelligence tools for the Office of the Attorney General.
Senator Alley introduced the $3 million hearing-protection request, saying $960,000 of the total would buy rechargeable custom devices for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Kansas Highway Patrol and the remaining $2.1 million would fund grants for local law enforcement to purchase off-the-shelf hearing protection.…
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