He served as Geary County Attorney from January 1989 until June of 2003 when he was appointed as the Kansas Securities Commissioner. Now Chris Biggs, 57, wants to serve again in that capacity.
Biggs has informed JC Post that he will run for Geary County Attorney in the upcoming election. “I feel I have a lot to offer in the position with my years of experience and success in the office. I think it’s an office that requires somebody that has a lot of experience with felony criminal matters and also trying serious felony criminal matters.”
Biggs has most recently served as an Assistant Geary County Attorney for just over two years.
During his stint as County Attorney Biggs handled some major cases that drew national and regional attention. “We had a lot of very difficult cases…. took an awful lot of work and time. I was proud of the fact that I was willing to take some cases that maybe other people may have not been willing to take on because of the difficulty with proof. ”
Biggs feels it’s important to have that kind of trial experience. “Because when you do you’re able to move the other cases along and get good results without necessarily having to try everything. Of course if that were to happen the system would crash under its’ own weight.”He added that having the ability to go to trial and success at trial is important in the job.
If elected, areas of emphasis for Biggs will include effective victim input in cases, good contact with victims, and mechanisms in place to pursue cases as well where victims are sometimes not cooperative. He would also like to institute more training with law enforcement…”back and forth training for people in the office with what’s going on with them at the department and vice versa.” Biggs also wants continued focus on domestic violence.
Biggs will run for County Attorney on the Democratic ticket. Republican Krista Blaisdell has also announced that she plans to file for election to the Geary County Attorney position. She is currently the Junction City Municipal Court prosecutor.