Kansas digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Kansas, showing where public legislative coverage currently looks more proactive, more reactive, broader, or thinner. It is a structural posture signal based on public disclosures, not a political or legal grade.
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Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Overall state posture signal
Mixed posture with narrow tracked coverage.
Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Mixed posture
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Kansas Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on direct statute tracking.
Kansas makes it a crime to create or share sexually explicit images that have been generated or altered by artificial intelligence or other digital means — covering both fabricated child sexual abuse material and deepfakes of real, identifiable adults. Senate Bill 186, approved by Governor Kelly on April 24, 2025 (2025 Session Laws of Kansas, Ch. 120), amended the state's sexual-exploitation-of-a-child, unlawful-transmission, and breach-of-privacy statutes to reach depictions that are "indistinguishable from a real child, morphed from a real child's image or generated without any actual child involvement," and images "created, altered or modified by artificial intelligence or any digital means" to falsely depict an identifiable person. The law carves out legitimate scientific, educational, governmental, or news purposes. Based on public records, this rule is in effect following its 2025 publication.
Educational summary only
Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Why this status
Based on direct statute tracking.
What this means
- Enacted SB 186 (2025 Session Laws Ch. 120) explicitly reaches AI-generated/computer-created CSAM and digitally altered deepfakes of identifiable people, so a specific synthetic-media rule is in effect.
What to do next
- Read the cited statute or bill text linked below to confirm the specifics for your state.
Citation-grade sources
Official sources
32025 Session Laws of Kansas, Ch. 120 (SB 186) — Kansas Secretary of State
Official textCitation: Chapter 120, SB 186 amends K.S.A. 21-5510 to reach synthetic depictions of a minor and 21-6101 breach of privacy for AI/digitally altered images of identifiable people; approved April 24, 2025.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceGovernor Laura Kelly newsroom — 'Governor Kelly Signs Bill Protecting Kansans'
Official textCitation: Governor's newsroom announces Kelly signed SB 186 criminalizing possession/creation/distribution of AI-generated CSAM and expanding breach of privacy to AI-altered sexual images (2025).
Observed: 2026-07-07Open sourceKansas State Legislature — SB 186 measure page
Official textCitation: SB 186 measure page shows 'Signed by Governor' and modifies sexual exploitation of a child, unlawful transmission, and breach of privacy for AI/morphed depictions; effective from publication in the statute book.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Provenance
Source basis
Official/public links curated
Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
2025 Session Laws of Kansas, Ch. 120 (SB 186) — Kansas Secretary of State
Governor Laura Kelly newsroom — 'Governor Kelly Signs Bill Protecting Kansans'
Kansas State Legislature — SB 186 measure page
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