The CLAS detector is a large acceptance spectrometer located at the electron accelerator at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility. Production ofK+andK*mesons along with associated hyperons were measured using the CLAS detector at electron beam energies of 2.4–4.4 GeV. In addition, polarization transfer from the electron helicity to the &Lgr; hyperon was measured. These data are compared with theoretical models, where available, based on fits to older, less preciseK+data. The new data for CLAS indicate that improvements in the models are necessary in order to interpret the results. © 2002 American Institute of Physics