KORA RECORD REQUEST RESPONSE

TO:

James Donald Russian

503 W Kansas, Apt. 2
Pittsburg, KS 66762

RE:

KORA Request

DATE:

February 19,2014

Your request dated February 12,2014, was received in this office on February 13,2014. Your
request is treated as a request for information under the Kansas Open Records Act (KORA),
K.S.A. 45-215, et seq. KORA requires disclosure of information that is part of the public record,
which is defined to mean "any recorded information, regardless of form or characteristics, which
is made, maintained or kept by or is in the possession of any public agencY[rJ" K.S.A.,2012
Supp.45-217(g)(1). Response to a KORA request is due by the end ofthe third business day
after the request is received, which here is February 19,2014. K.S.A. 45~218.
You have requested two items. Your first request is for "the admitted insurance company and
licensed insurance agent for the above named judges 'A.J. Wachter' and 'Kurtis Loy' and judge
Lori Bolton Fleming[.]" This office does not make, maintain, or keep in its possession any
information in response to this request. The State of Kansas is self-insured. Judges are covered
by the Kansas Tort Claims Act, K.S.A. 75-6101, and amendments thereto. As with any state
employee, the Kansas Attorney General's Office represents judges if they are sued. Because this
office maintains no records in response to your first request, this request is denied.
Your second request is to "please reveal or produce all the bonds in the name of 'JAMES
DONALD RUSSIAN' and any derivates of that spelling which are including bid bond,
performance bond, or payment bond and or any other type of bond that might have been
generated in any variation of my name James Donald Russian or 'JAMES DONALD
RUSSIAN.'" Because this office has varying types of bonds, such as arrest or statutory bonds,
the request is too broad. Therefore, this request is subject to Kansas Supreme Court Rule 196,
2013 Kan. Ct. R. Annot. 289, which governs public access to district court electronic case
records. Each court will make information available for public access through the use of public
access terminals located in the courthouse. Only information from the court where the
courthouse is located will be available from the terminal. Rule 196(b)(3).
Rule 196(d)(I) provides that public access to electronic case records or information contained in
electronic records "must be available on a case-by-case basis only[.]" Rule 196(a)(2) defines
"Case-by-Case Access" to mean "that each electronic case record is available only individually
and that when a search for an individual electronic case record returns multiple results, each
result may be viewed only individually." Furthermore, Rule 916(e) provides, "Complied
information and bulk distribution will not be available." In Rule 196(a)(1), "Bulk distribution" is
defined as "the distribution of all or a significant subset of the information in court case records
in electronic form, as is, and without modification or compilation." Rule 196(a)(3) defines

"Compiled Information" to be "information that is derived from the selection, aggregation, or

reformulation of all or a subset of all the information from more than one individual court case
record in electronic form." This means cases must be researched individually. The clerk's office
will not compile reports or provide information in bulk. Because the information you request
constitutes a request for compiled information or bulk distribution, your second request is also
denied.

h~$dPamela Hicks
Clerk of the District Court of Crawford County
cc: Mac Young, Court Administrator of the 11th Judicial District