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Aug 11, 2023

Rethinking Quindaro: A Kansas ACLU report shines a new light on a 'truly democratic place'

Quindaro in Wyandotte County was once a thriving, multiracial community, inextricably linked to the region’s history before, during and after the Civil War. This week, the ACLU of Kansas is releasing a...

Aug 10, 2023

Remembering Quindaro: ACLU of Kansas Shines New Light

The ACLU of Kansas is asking people to study the history of Quindaro to envision a more just and equitable Kansas. Quindaro, the organization argues, is more than a site of historic significance, known...

Workers handle preservation duties duringa 1980s excavation of the Quindaro site. They are working on the old J.B. Upson Building, which housed a clothing store and served as offices for the Chindowan newspaper. ( Larry Schmits)

Aug 7, 2023

COVID Testing in Our Prison Has Been Used to Harm, Not Help

Constant testing did nothing to reduce COVID transmission, but it was very effective at reducing everything else. From a few weeks into the pandemic through the end of 2022, each time one of us tested...

Aug 2, 2023

Legal bills surpass $1 million in defense of voting laws

The cost of defending election laws enacted in 2021 has now surpassed $1 million as the litigation winds its way through the federal and state court system.

Information provided by the attorney...

The cost of defending election laws enacted in 2021 has now surpassed $1 million as the litigation winds its way through the federal and state court system.

Information provided by the attorney...

sunflower state journal: legal bills surpass $1 million in defense of voting laws

Jul 31, 2023

Federal judge upends court order allowing transgender Kansans to alter birth certificates - Kansas Reflector

In wake of the attorney general’s effort to undo the consent order, Kansas ACLU executive director Micah Kubic said Kobach ought to rethink the “sheer indecency of this attempt to weaponize his office’s...

A U.S. District Court judge granted Thursday a request by Attorney General Kris Kobach to modify a 2019 consent agreement resolving a lawsuit by permitting transgender Kansans to amend birth certificates to be consistent with gender. The Kansas Legislatur

Jul 24, 2023

Kansas Troopers ‘Waged War on Motorists,’ Federal Judge Finds - The New York Times

When a mundane traffic stop was nearing its end, a state trooper would turn to leave. But after a couple of paces toward the squad car, the trooper would whirl around and go back to the window of the pulled...

Officers used a procedure known as a “two-step,” the court found, in which troopers would return to stopped motorists and try to engage them in voluntary conversation.Credit...George Etheredge for The New York Times