TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A local prosecutor is warning Kansas legislators and Governor Sam Brownback to preserve records andelectronic files about meetings at his official residence. The prosecutor calls it “potentially relevant evidence” into a newspaper’s complaints that the sessions violated the state’s open meetings act.

Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor sent a letter to all 40 state senators and all 125 House members, directing them to preserve not only their records, electronic files and “tangible items,” but the same materials for their staffs, including interns. He told the legislators their efforts to preserve such materials “must begin immediately.”

The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter Thursday evening from a legislative source who did not want to be identified because copies of the letter, while delivered to the Statehouse.