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Chase County establishes fund to track new $10 offender-registration technology fee
Summary
After a presentation by Sheriff Jacob Welsh, the Chase County Commissioners approved Resolution 2026-07 to establish fund number 914 to hold a newly required $10 technology fee added to offender registration payments; the sheriff said county collections will be submitted to the state.
Chase County commissioners approved Resolution 2026-07 on June 30 to establish fund number 914 to account for a newly required offender-registration technology fee.
Sheriff Jacob Welsh told the board the state has moved to a single, statewide offender-registration platform and that the statutory change adds a $10 technology surcharge to each offender registration. "Essentially, we still collect $20 as part of the registration. $10 is now the technology fee," Welsh said, explaining that the county will collect the fee but periodically remit the technology portion to the state.
Welsh described the intended benefits of the vendor platform — cross-jurisdictional records access and a consolidated offender history — and said the law takes effect the following day. Commissioners approved the resolution after the sheriff's briefing and moved to establish the new fund to keep the technology fee separate from existing registration revenue.
The transcript does not identify the exact statutory citation; the sheriff described the change as a state law requiring the new platform and fee. Commissioners instructed county finance staff to track fund 914 collections and ensure remittance to the state as required.
The action was recorded as a voice vote; no roll-call tally by name appears in the meeting record.
