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Apr 25, 2024

KS lawmakers may override veto of gender-affirming care ban. That worries these JoCo parents, teachers.

LGBTQ+ Rights

She was referring to SB 233, which passed both chambers of the Kansas Legislature and was vetoed by Gov. Laura Kelly earlier this year. Supporters of the bill plan to attempt to override it when they come...

She was referring to SB 233, which passed both chambers of the Kansas Legislature and was vetoed by Gov. Laura Kelly earlier this year. Supporters of the bill plan to attempt to override it when they come...

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Apr 18, 2024

Trump, Johnson proof of citizenship plan echoes KS voter law | Kansas City Star

Voting Rights

“One would hope that folks would follow the example and figure out the natural conclusion of this which is that it is not legally tenable, it is not popular, it is not based on reality,” ACLU of Kansas...

“One would hope that folks would follow the example and figure out the natural conclusion of this which is that it is not legally tenable, it is not popular, it is not based on reality,” ACLU of Kansas...

President Donald Trump, left, and Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, on Nov. 20, 2016, at the clubhouse of Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster Township, N.J. SIPA USA TNS
President Donald Trump, left, and Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state, on Nov. 20, 2016, at the clubhouse of Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster Township, N.J. SIPA USA TNS
Apr 17, 2024

Hundreds of signatures in favor of Fort Hays State polling location sent to Ellis County clerk • Kansas Reflector

Voting Rights

On Tuesday, Madison Albers, a student at Fort Hays State and co-chair of the American Democracy Project, along with others involved in the polling place effort, delivered 480 signatures in support of the...

On Tuesday, Madison Albers, a student at Fort Hays State and co-chair of the American Democracy Project, along with others involved in the polling place effort, delivered 480 signatures in support of the...

Madison Albers, a student at Fort Hays State University and co-chair of the American Democracy Project, is fighting for an on-campus polling place. (Allie Utley/ACLU of Kansas)
Madison Albers, a student at Fort Hays State University and co-chair of the American Democracy Project, is fighting for an on-campus polling place. (Allie Utley/ACLU of Kansas)
Apr 16, 2024

Kansas Highway Patrol ordered to pay more than $2M for ‘two-step’ approach

Criminal Legal Reform

The judgment stems from a 2019 lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the KHP over its “two-step” approach. That’s where troopers pull someone over, and then seek to reengage the driver...

The judgment stems from a 2019 lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against the KHP over its “two-step” approach. That’s where troopers pull someone over, and then seek to reengage the driver...

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Thumbnail of news video showing police speed gun
Apr 15, 2024

KHP ordered to pay plaintiffs $2.3 million for unconstitutional 'Kansas two-step' traffic policy • Kansas Reflector

Racial Justice

A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay $2.34 million in attorney fees and other costs following a successful challenge to constitutionality of the state law enforcement agency’...

A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay $2.34 million in attorney fees and other costs following a successful challenge to constitutionality of the state law enforcement agency’...

A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay $2.3 million in legal costs to ACLU of Kansas and a law firm that represented plaintiffs who successfully challenged constitutionality of a KHP’s “Kansas two-step” drug-enforcement polic
A U.S. District Court judge ordered the Kansas Highway Patrol to pay $2.3 million in legal costs to ACLU of Kansas and a law firm that represented plaintiffs who successfully challenged constitutionality of a KHP’s “Kansas two-step” drug-enforcement polic
Apr 13, 2024

Kansas governor vetoes a ban on gender-affirming care; GOP vows override - The Washington Post

LGBTQ+ Rights

“We cannot overstate the harm this bill will cause to some of our most vulnerable Kansas children and their families,” D.C. Hiegert, LGBTQ+ fellow of the ACLU of Kansas, said in a statement after the veto...

“We cannot overstate the harm this bill will cause to some of our most vulnerable Kansas children and their families,” D.C. Hiegert, LGBTQ+ fellow of the ACLU of Kansas, said in a statement after the veto...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, shown in March, vetoed a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal/AP)
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly, shown in March, vetoed a bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors. (Evert Nelson/The Topeka Capital-Journal/AP)