2006 Kansas Code - 74-9501

      74-9501.   Kansas criminal justice coordinating council; membership; powers and duties; local government advisory group; task forces. (a) There is hereby established the Kansas criminal justice coordinating council.

      (b)   The council shall consist of the governor or designee, the chief justice of the supreme court or designee, the attorney general or designee, the secretary of corrections, the superintendent of the highway patrol, the commissioner of juvenile justice and the director of the Kansas bureau of investigation.

      (c)   The governor shall designate staff to the Kansas criminal justice coordinating council. The staff shall attend all meetings of the council, be responsible for keeping a record of council meetings, prepare reports of the council and perform such other duties as directed by the council.

      (d)   The council shall elect a chairperson and vice-chairperson from among the members of the council.

      (e)   The council shall:

      (1)   Appoint a standing local government advisory group to consult and advise the council concerning local government criminal justice issues and the impact of state criminal justice policy and decisions on local units of government. The advisory group shall consist of a sheriff, chief of police, county or district attorney, a member of a city governing body and a county commissioner. Appointees to such advisory group shall serve without compensation or reimbursement for travel and subsistence or any other expenses;

      (2)   define and analyze issues and processes in the criminal justice system, identify alternative solutions and make recommendations for improvements;

      (3)   perform such criminal justice studies or tasks as requested by the governor, the attorney general, the legislature or the chief justice, as deemed appropriate or feasible by the council;

      (4)   oversee development and management of a criminal justice database including assuming the designation and functions of the state statistical analysis center currently assigned to the Kansas bureau of investigation pursuant to K.S.A. 75-712a and amendments thereto. All criminal justice agencies as defined in subsection (c) of K.S.A. 22-4701 and amendments thereto and the juvenile justice authority shall provide any data or information, including juvenile offender information which is requested by the council, in a form and manner established by the council, in order to facilitate the development and management of the criminal justice council database;

      (5)   develop and oversee reporting of all criminal justice federal funding available to the state or local units of government including assuming the designation and functions of administering the United States bureau of justice assistance grants;

      (6)   form such task groups as necessary and appoint individuals who appropriately represent law enforcement, the judiciary, legal profession, state, local, or federal government, the public, or other professions or groups as determined by the council, to represent the various aspects of the issue being analyzed or studied, when analyzing criminal justice issues and performing criminal justice studies. Members of the legislature may be appointed ex officio members to such task groups. A member of the council shall serve as the chairperson of each task group appointed by the council. The council may appoint other members of the council to any task group formed by the council; and

      (7)   review reports submitted by each task group named by the council and shall submit the report with the council's recommendations pertaining thereto to the governor, the attorney general, the chief justice of the supreme court, the chief clerk of the house of representatives and the secretary of the senate.

      History:   L. 1994, ch. 315, § 1; L. 1996, ch. 229, § 127; L. 1997, ch. 156, § 87; L. 2004, ch. 160, § 6; May 27.