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Dec 3, 2022

‘Troubling and authoritarian’: Kansas ACLU issues warning ahead of St. Marys library vote

TOPEKA — The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas has advised St. Marys city commissioners to renew the imperiled lease of their local public library, saying the officials are violating the Constitution...

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Nov 29, 2022

Wichita has spent $150,000 on legal fees in defense of police gang list

The City of Wichita has paid a private law firm more than $150,000 in legal fees to defend itself from litigation over the police department’s use of a gang list.

Nov 23, 2022

ACLU urges St. Marys City Commission to drop censorship fight, fund library

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas says it has called on the St. Marys City Commission to continue to fund the Pottawatomie-Wabaunsee Regional Library headquarters and abandon a proposed ban on...

St. Marys library may be in jeopardy, lease set to end in December

Nov 22, 2022

Alex Gino, author of book that sparked effort to close Kansas town's library, speaks out - Kansas Reflector

The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas issued a statement in support of the library Wednesday, urging that the library continue to be funded and that the commission abandon the ban of these materials...

St. Marys residents line the walls to listen to the discussion of the library’s lease renewal during a Nov. 15, 2022, city commission meeting. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector)

Nov 22, 2022

KS police say MO rec marijuana vote won’t change approach | The Kansas City Star

“As you see Kansas become one of the last remaining states in the region where no marijuana, medical or recreational, there’s a significant concern that the Kansas Highway Patrol will continue to focus its...

Missouri voters approved Amendment 3, which will make it legal for those 21 and over to buy and use marijuana, and will create a state program regulating who can get licenses to grow and sell recreational marijuana. RICH SUGG rsugg@kcstar.com Read more a

Nov 21, 2022

ACLU urges St. Marys City Commission to drop censorship fight, fund library

“And the St. Mary’s commission’s insistence on banning items containing content they don’t like could have constitutional implications when it comes to library patrons’ rights to free expression and the...