SNAP data won't be turned over to USDA by deadline

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A Kansas judge will not force the state to turn over personal data on food stamp recipients to the federal government by its deadline.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has threatened to withhold millions in funding if the Kansas Department for Children and Families does not comply.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach sued Gov. Laura Kelly to force compliance, while the governor's administration cites data privacy laws.

Data on hundreds of thousands of Kansans won't be turned over to the federal government by its deadline.

District Judge Teresa Watson said in a Sept. 18 court hearing in Topeka that she won't order state compliance with the data request before the Sept. 19 deadline.

The decision could put at risk millions of dollars in federal funding, but it prov