| TOPEKA—The Kansas judicial branch has launched a new tool to search public district court records, and it will replace the current Kansas District Court Public Access Portal.
The new tool, CaseSearch, allows visitors to search public district court case information and documents online. It is active now, as is the Kansas District Court Public Access Portal it will replace. Both will remain active until next week, after which only CaseSearch will be available.
This change does not affect the Kansas Appellate Courts Public Access Portal.
Building from centralized case management
Amy Raymond, chief of district court operations and research, said CaseSearch was built in house to deliver on the opportunity to enhance how search works and the information it displays.
“Since completing the project to move all district courts to a centralized case management system, we’ve been alert for ways to harness greater benefit from this new technology,” Raymond said. “Rather than use an out-of-the-box solution, our case management team and developers built CaseSearch to pull data from the case management system to more effectively answer searchers’ information needs.”
Among the enhancements are more search types, a filter to search within case events, and more data in the financial details. The enhancements are responsive to feedback shared with the judicial branch during implementation of the centralized case management system in district courts, which is when case searches were first offered through the Kansas District Court Public Access Portal.
Another change involves using the identity verification tool ID.me for people who are approved to have expanded access to case information. Attorneys and justice system partners described in Supreme Court Rule 25 and in a temporary rule adopted by Administrative Order 2025-RL-139 are eligible for expanded access to case information.
Some public records only at courthouse
Public district court records are both case data and case documents. What is available through CaseSearch is described in Supreme Court Rule 22: Access to Public Electronic District Court Case Records.
Public records not available through CaseSearch are available at the courthouse using a courthouse terminal. Each district court has a computer reserved for public searches of court cases and court records.
Sealed cases and sealed records are not public and are not available through either CaseSearch or a courthouse terminal. |
