Kansas

County Level

 * Information is not available at the county level. It is not available online or can't be emailed. The only way to get is to FOI (which they might not respect) or to go down to City Hall.
 * Douglas County is an example of a good county Web site. Do we know anyone who works for Douglas County?
 * Several counties have used Civics Plus to create content management systems for them. We are going to make a page on the Wiki listing companies that should not be used to make government Web sites. Also start listing things people want to see on county Web sites that can build upon the Sunshine Review checklist.
 * We should also brainstorm about collecting and packaging information like FOI compliance and quality Web sites so compare counties to each other. This will evoke a competitive/ proud response from counties to want to do better.

Info

 * Restructuring of the legislative sites with new programming on open source software, from a firm called Propylon, with ability to see versioning and query the information. Will there be bulk download capabilities?
 * Who are the players in wanting this to not happen? Who are the supporters? What do the other state sites look like? Do we know anyone at the company? Do we know who on the state level is responsible for this change over?
 * Livestreaming of the Senate, House, and Committees will happen in a year or two? Do we know if this is a bill that has passed? Who is in charge of making this happen?
 * Committee information and testimony that is available in a hearing room should be put online in a timely fashion. They have the documents it is just a matter of them putting them online as a text PDF so people can access them. Each committee is in charge of posting its minutes and they don't all uniformly do it. What committees do put their minutes up? Who in the committee is responsible for minutes?
 * Possible legislators as allies: Kasha Kelly and Tim Hulsmake

FOI

 * There is no enforcement of FOI violations. There is fundamentally a bad attitude toward the idea of FOI and in depth records researching.
 * Kansas Open Records Act requires 3 day response but not adhered to.
 * Ally for FOI is Michael Smith at the State Attorney's office. What does he think about the current system?
 * FOI trainings were offered but unclear if they will happen yearly or if they will happen ever again. The materials are on Kansas Watchdog. Potential project of sharing the information with activists and bloggers offering the trainings to people in their area.

Data

 * There is no real way to bulk download data from Kansas. Geological information is available but not much else. There is some pockets of data somewhere but you have to really look. You should be able to bulk download campaign contribution data in 3 weeks from Sunlight's Data Commons. However other information is not available. There might be one database with everything but it is hard to tell. Does Kansas have a CIO? What data has been scraped or in PDFs that maybe we can put on Transparency Corps to get people to help convert to machine readable data?