Supreme Court a model for Legislature on online video

The Kansas Legislature is still resisting the 21st-century transparency of offering live and archived video of lawmaking, as many other states do. Despite having spent $325 million on a Capitol renovation, the Legislature only streams audio of House and Senate floor sessions, and then only live. And the House’s GOP leaders declined to make time last session for a Senate-passed bill enabling even a pilot program to stream live video of legislative committee meetings. While advocates prepare to try again next session, the state will get another indication of the level of interest in the ability to watch state government remotely at 9 a.m. Tuesday. That’s when the Kansas Supreme Court provides live online video of the oral arguments in Chad Taylor v. Kris Kobach, the lawsuit over whether Taylor should be allowed to get his name off the Nov. 4 ballot in the U.S. Senate race. The court also has an archive of its hearings. – Rhonda Holman

This story was originally published September 15, 2014 at 7:05 PM with the headline "Supreme Court a model for Legislature on online video."