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Kansas judicial branch will change domain from .org to .gov

TOPEKA—The Kansas court system is changing its domain from .org to .gov and it will appear first on the judicial branch website and some of its online systems and information portals.On July 1, the domain will change to .gov on the judicial branch website, the online attorney registration portal, and an online attorney directory.Other sites, systems, and portals will follow, and they are listed on an informational webpage—KSCourts is going .gov—on the judicial branch website.Email addresses to also changeStarting in late July, the judicial branch will also begin changing email addresses for the court system’s 290 justices and judges and roughly 1,700 employees.Changes to email addresses will occur in stages by office, county, or judicial district, a process that could take several weeks.Time for changeChief Justice Marla Luckert said that by making the change from .org to .gov, the judicial branch will clearly communicate to anyone who uses its services they are interacting with a government entity.“We researched the benefits of making this change last summer, but we were working on other time-sensitive projects at that time,” Luckert said.

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