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Feb 6, 2023

ACLU, motorists challenge roadside detention, dog searches triggered by ‘trooper two-step’

She said he accepted the speeding ticket from KHP, but didn’t believe he should drive away while Schulte peppered him with additional questions. The recording revealed Schulte scolded Shaw for driving too...

Kansas Highway Patrol Superintendent Herman Jones

Feb 6, 2023

Kansas death penalty to be argued in Wichita courtroom

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is using a Wichita murder case to fight the Kansas death penalty law, which it believes is unconstitutional. On Monday, Feb. 6, a Sedgwick County District Court...

Feb 3, 2023

Statehouse scraps: Kansas lawmakers shred transparency, good and bad bills, hated photo - Kansas Reflector

The ACLU of Kansas brought attention to a bill that proposes “proposes an old-fashioned literacy test, with a curriculum that includes the very Constitution bills like this one contradict, before...

The Ad Astra statue atop the Statehouse aims for a brighter tomorrow on a gloomy Jan. 24, 2023. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Feb 3, 2023

ACLU death penalty challenge to go before Sedgwick County judge

In a little more than a week, a challenge from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to the death penalty in Kansas will go before a Sedgwick County judge. Attorneys for the ACLU are making the case...

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Feb 3, 2023

'We would all be breaking the law': Kansas runoff election bill draws criticism - Kansas Reflector

Kansas ACLU policy director Aileen Berquist said runoff elections discouraged voter engagement and were based on discriminatory practices that began in the Jim Crow era to disenfranchise Black voters.

New voting legislation would implement a run-off election if a candidate for a statewide office doesn't receive a majority of votes. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)

Jan 26, 2023

Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric and laws harm your Kansas neighbors. We can build a more welcoming state. - Kansas Reflector

The past two years have been the deadliest for transgender people in recent history, in large part due to the rapidly increasing number of legislative attacks against trans peoples’ rights and the...

People marching under a rainbow parachute