Topeka ? Kansas would get tougher on child pornography and sexual exploitation of children under proposals outlined Tuesday by Attorney General Phill Kline.

He wants to make prison part of the presumed sentence for a first conviction of sexually exploiting a child. Probation is now the presumed sentence, with prison an option for a third conviction. Kline was flanked by more than 100 law enforcement officials and local prosecutors during a news conference in the Kansas House.

“Those who prey upon our children deserve to be put in prison, and those who violate the law should be brought to justice,” Kline said.

He also proposed updating state law to reflect changes in technology, allowing each image stored on a computer hard drive to support a separate charge of possessing child pornography. Kline said current law treats all images on a storage device as one count, meaning lesser sentences for those convicted.

The attorney general also asked legislators to enact restrictions on the sale of some cold, flu and allergy medications containing pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in the manufacturing of methamphetamines.

Work has stalled in the Senate on a bill, patterned after a 2004 Oklahoma law, to allow only pharmacies to sell certain cold medications from behind the counter and require customers to sign and show identification to purchase them.

The need for attacking meth production was reinforced, Kline said, by the shooting death last month of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels. He was killed while serving a warrant at a home near Virgil containing a suspected meth lab.

Kline also asked legislators to increase the Kansas Bureau of Investigation’s budget by $1.2 million to allow the agency to hire eight agents. The KBI has 18 vacant positions on an authorized staff of 81. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius included the hiring of eight agents in her budget request to legislators in January.