AG Schmidt: Catalytic Converters Should Be Covered Under Scrap Metal Theft Reduction Act
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt issued a press release stating that catalytic converters should be covered by the Scrap Metal Theft Reduction Act, and any transactions where they’re purchased by scrap metal dealers are regulated. Therefore, they must be reported to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation database.
The KBI’s database was designed to assist law enforcement in the prevention such thefts by tracking the sales of potentially stolen metals to dealers. However, while the aforementioned Act was signed into law in 2015, the transactional database only became operational in 2020 due to numerous amendments and a lack of funding.