Granting the attorney general concurrent authority to prosecute any crimes related to schools.

SB 160 grants Kansas's Attorney General concurrent authority with county or district attorneys to prosecute certain crimes involving elementary and secondary schools. Specifically, it allows the Attorney General to share prosecution power for Chapter 72 crimes (like theft, organized retail crime, or racketeering) when those crimes occur across two or more counties and are part of a broader criminal pattern affecting schools. This directly affects the Attorney General's office, local prosecutors, and school communities by expanding state-level involvement in multi-county school-related crime cases. The bill amends Kansas Statutes Annotated 75-702 to add this provision, removing the prior restriction on the Attorney General's authority for such cases.