I. Introduction: Access rights in the jurisdiction

Overview

Kansas

See Kansas City Star Co. v. Fossey, 630 P.2d 1176, 1181 (Kan. 1981) (“There is almost universal agreement among the courts and writers who have considered the issue that access to court proceedings should be limited only in exceptional circumstances. It has been said that the reason for requiring all court proceedings to be open, except where extraordinary reasons for closure are present, is to enhance the public trust and confidence in the judicial process and to insulate the process against attempts to use the courts as tools for persecution. The problem, of course, is to establish criteria or standards to guide a trial court in the exercise of its discretion in determining whether or not a closure order should be made.”)