A state-by-state guide
Kansas
Electronic messages are treated as public records. (Attorney General opinion 2002-1.) However, e-mail written by public officials and sent on, to or from personal-use computers but that does not go through public agency servers are not public records.
Topeka city commissioners’ use of text messaging during a public meeting in 2007 led the city attorney to issue a recommendation to discontinue the practice.
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