From Justice Center, The Council of State Governments:
As a result of Kansas’s Justice Reinvestment Initiative, in 2022, the state passed criminal justice legislation that addressed an ongoing problem in its community supervision system: concurrent supervision.
In most states, community supervision is facilitated by one state entity. Kansas is unique in having a trifurcated supervision system. This system design can cause a person involved in several court cases to be under supervision by one, two, or all three supervision agencies simultaneously.
In 2019, between 5 and 15 percent of the supervision population in Kansas (1,200–3,600 people) were being supervised by more than one supervision entity. The new legislation will render these situations far less likely by ensuring that people can only be supervised by one entity at a time. Continue reading >>>
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