A new state audit found that Kansas does not have a comprehensive registry of people who abuse, exploit and neglect children or vulnerable adults because of a fragmented system and a lack of clarity in state law.
Auditors set out to document whether state agencies had complete registries of perpetrators of abuse, neglect and exploitation.
They found that the registries may be incomplete, although the system was so complex it was hard to know for sure whether they were complete or not.
The auditors said in their SSJ