Electronic filing restored statewide in Kansas after cyberattack

TOPEKA (KSNT) – The Kansas Judicial Branch says its efiling services have been restored statewide months after a cyberattack was reported.

Lisa Taylor with the Kansas Courts announced in a press release that, excluding a few exceptions, electronic filing is available in district courts across the Sunflower State. If a case is in the Kansas eCourt case management system, documents can be filed electronically. However, new case initiation is still be paper for the time being.

“District courts have been backloading paper filings since they regained access to the case management system in December,” Chief Justice Marla Luckert said. “With the efiling system back online, and attorneys returning to using it, the number of paper filings received by courts should be greatly reduced. This will help courts that are uploading paper documents filed while our systems were offline.”

Taylor said court information systems are currently out of date until new cases, case filings and case payments that occurred after the day of the cyberattack, Oct. 12, are added to the case management system.

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