Many Kansas state government agencies issue news releases with some frequency promoting new programs, agency employee changes, changes in regulations, etc. Some agencies publish news releases with great regularity while others send out these newsy announcements as needed.
Having a continuous collection of news releases is something akin to having a "diary" of day to day happenings within state government. Though most news releases just scratch the surface of events, plans and decisions they often give the researcher an idea of when, where, what, how and who in regards to agency operations. So these information bits can give direction in narrowing searches for more in depth information.
The KGI Online Library tries to maintain as many agency news release collections as we can. We normally gather the news releases for a single year into a large searchable document listing article titles within content notes. Normally we provide the most recent year within our collection. So right now the news release collections online only go up to 2014. Then as soon as January 2016 rolls around we'll start entering 2015 collections.
Here's a sampling of news release collections in KGI Online Library:
Kansas Attorney General
(1990-2014)
Kansas Department of Agriculture
(1991-1996, 2004-2014)
Kansas Department for Children and Families
(2012-2014 - as well as
Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services 1995-2012)
Kansas Department of Commerce
(2001-2014)
Kansas Department of Corrections
(2006-2014)
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
(1997-2014)
Kansas Department of Revenue
(2010-2014)
Kansas Department of Transportation
(1999-2014)
Kansas Governor's Office
Brownback (2011-2014)
Parkinson (2009-2011)
Sebelius (2003-2009)
Kansas Highway Patrol
(2001-2014)
Kansas Insurance Department
(2000-2014)
Kansas Water Office
(2012-2014)
Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism
(1980-2014 - Includes previous agency names)
Kansas Secretary of State
(2000-2014)
Can't find an agency you're interested in? Check out the main listing of agencies at
http://kslib.info/KGI