Attorney General Opinion No.

J. Michael Hayden, Secretary Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks 1020 S. Kansas Avenue, Suite 200 Topeka, Kansas 66612

Dear Secretary Hayden:

As Secretary of the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, you ask whether a Department natural resource officer (NRO)1 subjects himself or herself to criminal liability for trespass when entering private property in the performance of official duties. By "private property," you are referring to outside lands, and not inside a home or business.

In 1966 Attorney General Robert Londerholm, responded "no" to the question, "[d]oes a game protector2…