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Feb 16, 2024

Kansas House's child support bill invites scrutiny of meanings between lines of written text - Kansas Reflector

The bill’s narrow definition of “elective abortion,” which would exclude considerations of mental health for the pregnant woman, exemplified attempts to curtail women’s autonomy, reproductive freedoms and...

Taylor Morton of Planned Parenthood Great Plains Votes urged Kansas House members to reject a bill extending child support obligations to a fetus from conception until birth. The bill was advocated by anti-abortion organizations. (Kansas Reflector screen

Feb 16, 2024

Kansas AG Kobach targets school policies on trans students | Kansas City Star

Kobach is now urging school districts to tell parents if students are trans or nonbinary.

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach. TAMMY LJUNGBLAD tljungblad@kcstar.com

Feb 16, 2024

AG Kris Kobach pushes to change Kansas execution laws | Kansas City Star

Kansas should also allow executions by hypoxia, Kobach says. The controversial execution method deprives a person of oxygen and was used in the United States for the first time last month. Micah Kubic,...

Feb 16, 2024

“Students have a constitutional right to privacy”: An ACLU of Kansas response regarding AG Kobach’s letters to schools

The ACLU of Kansas has released a response regarding the Kansas Attorney General’s letter to six Kansas Public School districts allegedly not disclosing a student’s pronouns shared in school to the student’...

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Feb 12, 2024

Do Dodge City's at-large elections keep Latinos out of office? - KLC Journal

A little more than a year ago, ACLU Kansas and other voting-rights groups filed a lawsuit against the city claiming that its at-large election system unlawfully dilutes the votes of Latinos – depriving them...

Although more than 65% of Dodge City residents identify as Latino, just a handful of Hispanics have served on the city commission over the past three decades. Such sparse levels of representation have sparked a federal lawsuit filed ACLU Kansas. But city

Feb 12, 2024

‘Kansans aren’t having it’: ACLU, Loud Light talk state elections, restrictions

“The thing that’s consistent about all of those is that they’re all attacks on democracy, all attacks on voting rights,” Kubic said. “Precisely the sort of attacks that have already been rejected by Kansans...

Voting rights advocates warn of new legislation that could hurt Kansans' ability to vote. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)