AG opinion warns JoCo Commission its sales tax renewal ballot question exceeds commission authority

TOPEKA – (July 22, 2025) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today issued an opinion warning that the Johnson County Board of Commissioners exceeded its authority with a resolution to renew a public safety sales tax to fund mental health and emergency medical services.

07/22/2025 4:25 PM

Kobach announces $720 million opioid settlement with drug manufacturers

TOPEKA – (July 14, 2025) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced an approximate $720 million nationwide settlement with eight drug makers that manufactured opioid pills and worsened the nationwide opioid crisis. Kansas stands to receive approximately $5.7 million in settlement funds.

07/14/2025

Kobach urges feds to investigate KS schools for illegal 'social transition' policies

TOPEKA – (June 24, 2025) –Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach is asking the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights to investigate four Kansas school districts for suspected failure to comply with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA.

06/24/2025

Kansas Attorney General wins first battle in lawsuit against Pfizer over Covid Vaccine

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach has announced today that a federal judge has granted the State of Kansas’s motion to remand its false advertising lawsuit against Pfizer, Inc. back to state court.

05/14/2025 4:11 PM

Kansas Attorney General’s Office monitoring condemnation of apartments in Gardner

TOPEKA – (May 8, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced that his office is monitoring the condemnation of an apartment building in Gardner.

05/08/2025

Salina Man Found Guilty of 2021 Murder

SALINA – (May 7, 2025) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced that a Saline County jury found Juan Doroteo Morales, 38, of Salina, guilty of first-degree, premeditated murder, aggravated assault, and criminal possession of a firearm by a felon.

05/07/2025

AG’s Office files charges in Russell homicide case

TOPEKA – (May 5, 2025) - Robert James Torres, 33, of Russell, will face a first-degree murder charge and an attempted first-degree murder charge, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced. Deputy Attorney General Jessica Domme filed formal charges in Russell County Court today.

05/05/2025

Barton County woman charged in connection with homicide

TOPEKA – (April 24, 2025) - A Barton County woman has been charged with first degree murder in connection with the death of a four-month-old baby, Kansas Attorney General Kris W. Kobach said today.

04/24/2025

Holiday train ride company ordered to issue refunds to KS consumers

TOPEKA – (April 22, 2025) - A Douglas County Court ordered a holiday train ride company to issue refunds to Kansas consumers, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced.

04/22/2025

Audit finds $22.5 million in potential savings to Kansas taxpayers

TOPEKA – (April 16, 2025) - The state of Kansas could save approximately $22.5 million each year, a performance audit conducted by Kansas Medicaid Inspector General Steven D. Anderson recently revealed.

04/16/2025 2:00 PM

Audit finds $22.5 million in potential savings to Kansas taxpayers

04/16/2025

Kobach urges Kansans to wear blue April 4

TOPEKA – (April 2, 2025) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and the Kansas State Child Death Review Board are encouraging Kansans to wear blue on Friday, April 4, to increase awareness of child abuse. The effort is part of April’s observance of Child Abuse Prevention Month.

04/10/2025 10:29 AM

Kobach, AG coalition score victory for corporate accountability

TOPEKA – (March 28, 2025) – Attorney General Kris Kobach and a coalition of 16 state attorneys general today announced the conclusion of an investigation into Wells Fargo following the company's decision to abandon certain Environmental Social Governance (ESG) policies.

03/28/2025 12:11 PM

Victim assistance grant opportunities open for application

TOPEKA – (March 26, 2025) – Six grant programs serving victims of crime across Kansas are open for application, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced today.

03/26/2025 3:33 PM

Kobach joins bipartisan effort to protect veterans' education benefits

TOPEKA - (March 20, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today joined 51 other attorneys general in filing an amicus brief before the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims in support of two military veterans and their families who were unlawfully denied their full G.I. Bill education bene

03/20/2025

Kobach issues statement on Kansas House passing judicial selection reform constitutional amendment

TOPEKA - (March 19, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach issued the following statement upon the adoption by the Kansas House of a constitutional amendment that would allow voters to directly elect Kansas Supreme Court Justices:

03/19/2025 1:01 PM

Salina man sentenced to jail for domestic violence

TOPEKA - (Feb. 24, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced that Steven L. Smith, 57 of Salina, pled no contest to domestic violence charges in Saline County last week.

02/24/2025

KS becomes 2nd state to deputize state law enforcement to enforce immigration laws under Trump

TOPEKA - (Feb. 17, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced today that Attorney General’s Office and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation signed an agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that will allow KBI agents to work with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement to remov

02/19/2025 1:28 PM

Fraudster gets jail time

TOPEKA - (Feb. 14, 2025) – Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced that Terry Lee Clay, 47 of Kansas City, Kansas, plead guilty to two counts of mistreatment of an elder person and one count of violation of a consumer protection order.

02/19/2025 1:24 PM

Kobach seeks to intervene in Ford County lawsuit that attacks American energy

TOPEKA – (Feb. 4, 2025) - Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach today announced that the state of Kansas is seeking to intervene in a federal lawsuit in the Western District of Missouri to defend Kansas’s sovereignty, defend Kansas law, and protect the public interest.

02/05/2025