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      "id": "learn_r594_kansas_obscenity_and_distribution_kansas_obscenity_anchor",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Official Kansas statutes index anchor",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas Statutes Annotated Chapter 21 is 'CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS' located at the official Kansas Legislature statutes page",
      "body": "Kansas Statutes Annotated Chapter 21 is 'CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS' located at the official Kansas Legislature statutes page\n\nWhat Kansas State Legislature actually says:\n\n“Chapter 21. - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-10",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Kansas State Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "Chapter 21. - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "594-kansas-obscenity-and-distribution",
      "subject": "Kansas State Legislature obscenity statutes",
      "topic": "Official Kansas statutes index anchor",
      "applies_to_country": "*",
      "tags": {
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        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-ks"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
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      }
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    {
      "id": "learn_r594_kansas_obscenity_and_distribution_kansas_obscenity_definition",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Definition of obscene material in Kansas",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas defines obscene material using a three-part test requiring prurient interest appeal, patently offensive sexual descriptions, and lack of serious value",
      "body": "Kansas defines obscene material using a three-part test requiring prurient interest appeal, patently offensive sexual descriptions, and lack of serious value\n\nWhat Kansas State Legislature actually says:\n\n“Any material or performance is \"obscene\" if:\n\n(A) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;\n\n(B) the average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance has patently offensive representations or descriptions of:\n\n(i) Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse or sodomy; or\n\n(ii) masturbation, excretory functions, sadomasochistic abuse or lewd exhibition of the genitals; and\n\n(C) taken as a whole, a reasonable person would find that the material or performance lacks serious literary, educational, artistic, political or scientific value;”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/021_000_0000_chapter/021_064_0000_article/021_064_0001_section/021_064_0001_k/",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-10",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Kansas State Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "Any material or performance is \"obscene\" if:\n\n(A) The average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest;\n\n(B) the average person applying contemporary community standards would find that the material or performance has patently offensive representations or descriptions of:\n\n(i) Ultimate sexual acts, normal or perverted, actual or simulated, including sexual intercourse or sodomy; or\n\n(ii) masturbation, excretory functions, sadomasochistic abuse or lewd exhibition of the genitals; and\n\n(C) taken as a whole, a reasonable person would find that the material or performance lacks serious literary, educational, artistic, political or scientific value;",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "594-kansas-obscenity-and-distribution",
      "subject": "Kansas obscenity statute K.S.A. 21-6401",
      "topic": "Definition of obscene material in Kansas",
      "applies_to_country": "*",
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          "us-ks"
        ],
        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
          "thin_body",
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        "checked_utc": "20261021-123916Z"
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r594_kansas_obscenity_and_distribution_kansas_distribution_offense",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas promoting obscenity criminal offense",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas prohibits promoting obscenity through manufacturing, mailing, transmitting, publishing, distributing, presenting, exhibiting or advertising obscene material",
      "body": "Kansas prohibits promoting obscenity through manufacturing, mailing, transmitting, publishing, distributing, presenting, exhibiting or advertising obscene material\n\nWhat Kansas State Legislature actually says:\n\n“(a) Promoting obscenity is recklessly:\n\n(1) Manufacturing, mailing, transmitting, publishing, distributing, presenting, exhibiting or advertising any obscene material or obscene device;\n\n(2) possessing any obscene material or obscene device with intent to mail, transmit, publish, distribute, present, exhibit or advertise such material or device;\n\n(3) offering or agreeing to manufacture, mail, transmit, publish, distribute, present, exhibit or advertise any obscene material or obscene device; or\n\n(4) producing, presenting or directing an obscene performance or participating in a portion thereof which is obscene or which contributes to its obscenity.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/021_000_0000_chapter/021_064_0000_article/021_064_0001_section/021_064_0001_k/",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-10",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Kansas State Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "(a) Promoting obscenity is recklessly:\n\n(1) Manufacturing, mailing, transmitting, publishing, distributing, presenting, exhibiting or advertising any obscene material or obscene device;\n\n(2) possessing any obscene material or obscene device with intent to mail, transmit, publish, distribute, present, exhibit or advertise such material or device;\n\n(3) offering or agreeing to manufacture, mail, transmit, publish, distribute, present, exhibit or advertise any obscene material or obscene device; or\n\n(4) producing, presenting or directing an obscene performance or participating in a portion thereof which is obscene or which contributes to its obscenity.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "594-kansas-obscenity-and-distribution",
      "subject": "Kansas promoting obscenity statute K.S.A. 21-6401",
      "topic": "Kansas promoting obscenity criminal offense",
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        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
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    {
      "id": "learn_r594_kansas_obscenity_and_distribution_kansas_harmful_minors",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas promotion to minors of harmful material statute",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas prohibits displaying, distributing or presenting material harmful to minors to unmarried persons under 18 years of age",
      "body": "Kansas prohibits displaying, distributing or presenting material harmful to minors to unmarried persons under 18 years of age\n\nWhat Kansas State Legislature actually says:\n\n“(a) No person having custody, control or supervision of any commercial establishment shall knowingly:\n\n(1) Display any material which is harmful to minors in such a way that minors, as a part of the invited general public, will be exposed to view such material or device;\n\n(2) present or distribute to a minor, or otherwise allow a minor to view, with or without consideration, any material which is harmful to minors; or\n\n(3) present to a minor, or participate in presenting to a minor, with or without consideration, any performance which is harmful to a minor.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/021_000_0000_chapter/021_064_0000_article/021_064_0002_section/021_064_0002_k/",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-10",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Kansas State Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "(a) No person having custody, control or supervision of any commercial establishment shall knowingly:\n\n(1) Display any material which is harmful to minors in such a way that minors, as a part of the invited general public, will be exposed to view such material or device;\n\n(2) present or distribute to a minor, or otherwise allow a minor to view, with or without consideration, any material which is harmful to minors; or\n\n(3) present to a minor, or participate in presenting to a minor, with or without consideration, any performance which is harmful to a minor.",
      "volatility": "low",
      "from_batch": "594-kansas-obscenity-and-distribution",
      "subject": "Kansas harmful to minors statute K.S.A. 21-6402",
      "topic": "Kansas promotion to minors of harmful material statute",
      "applies_to_country": "*",
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        "stage": "any",
        "region": [
          "us-ks"
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        "platform": "any",
        "topic": [
          "unclassified"
        ],
        "explicitness": "any"
      },
      "verification": {
        "status": "failed",
        "label": "Unverified - being checked",
        "reasons": [
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    },
    {
      "id": "learn_r594_kansas_obscenity_and_distribution_kansas_penalties",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas criminal penalty classifications for obscenity offenses",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Kansas classifies promoting obscenity as a class A nonperson misdemeanor (severity level 9 felony for second conviction) and promoting obscenity to minors as a class A nonperson misdemeanor (severity level 8 felony for second conviction)",
      "body": "Kansas classifies promoting obscenity as a class A nonperson misdemeanor (severity level 9 felony for second conviction) and promoting obscenity to minors as a class A nonperson misdemeanor (severity level 8 felony for second conviction)\n\nWhat Kansas State Legislature actually says:\n\n“(c) (1) Promoting obscenity is a:\n\n(A) Class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in (c)(1)(B); and\n\n(B) severity level 9, person felony upon a second or subsequent conviction.\n\n(2) Promoting obscenity to minors is a:\n\n(A) Class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in (c)(2)(B); and\n\n(B) severity level 8, person felony upon a second or subsequent conviction.”",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://www.kslegislature.gov/b2025_26/laws/021_000_0000_chapter/021_064_0000_article/021_064_0001_section/021_064_0001_k/",
      "last_verified": "2026-10-10",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Kansas State Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "(c) (1) Promoting obscenity is a:\n\n(A) Class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in (c)(1)(B); and\n\n(B) severity level 9, person felony upon a second or subsequent conviction.\n\n(2) Promoting obscenity to minors is a:\n\n(A) Class A nonperson misdemeanor, except as provided in (c)(2)(B); and\n\n(B) severity level 8, person felony upon a second or subsequent conviction.",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "Kansas obscenity penalties K.S.A. 21-6401",
      "topic": "Kansas criminal penalty classifications for obscenity offenses",
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        "topic": [
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      "verification": {
        "status": "unverified",
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