Under a new agreement, the USDA has accepted Kansas’ data protection conditions. In exchange, the state will share SNAP recipient data from the past five years.
A farmer operates a drone in his farmland to conduct aerial sowing of rapeseed in Mengshan County, Wuzhou City, Guangxi Province, China, on December 23, 2025. (CFOTO / Future Publishing via Getty Images)
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly arrives to address the crowd during her watch party at the Ramada Hotel Downtown Topeka on November 8, 2022 in Topeka, Kansas. (Michael B. Thomas / Getty Images)
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the crowd during her watch party at the Ramada Hotel Downtown Topeka on November 8, 2022 in Topeka, Kansas. (Michael B. Thomas / Getty Images)
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly appointed John Godfrey, who's held cybersecurity roles with the state government and state university system, as the new statewide CISO.
Incumbent Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly addresses the crowd during her watch party at the Ramada Hotel Downtown Topeka on November 8, 2022 in Topeka, Kansas. (Michael B. Thomas / Getty Images)
More than 153,000 people in the state of Kansas are without high-speed internet service due to infrastructure limitations, affordability and other barriers.
An emergency bill makes compliance voluntary and bans the use of mobile location data to track the identity or movements of the state's COVID-19 patients.