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The ACLU of Kansas also criticized the bill’s passage. “Bathroom bans are grounded in prejudice and misinformation,” said Logan Demond, ACLU of Kansas policy director in a statement on the organization’s website. “And they don’t actually make anyone safer.”

The case led by the ACLU against KHP is best known for challenging the Kansas two-step, a controversial technique used by troopers to extend traffic stops and eventually search vehicles.

Micah Kubic, ACLU of Kansas Executive Director, said in part in a statement on the group’s website: “This bill undermines our state’s strong constitutional protections against government overreach and persecution. It subjects people to unacceptable privacy violations and puts them in harm’s way. Discriminatory laws like this bill violate the fundamental rights guaranteed by the state constitution. They contradict what it means to be a Kansan.”

Following a challenge by the ACLU, a federal judge said Kansas troopers thwarted the 14th Amendment. But a federal appeals panel decided better training is enough to remedy the violations.

Logan DeMond, ACLU of Kansas policy director, said in a statement that the bill opens up all Kansans to “scrutiny and gender policing by strangers.”

“While the full county program faced setbacks,” Google AI says, “residents can still potentially access a community ID through local initiatives, with efforts led by organizations like the ACLU of Kansas aiming to provide IDs for library, transit, and service access, though the process and availability for a specific municipal ID card need checking with local county/city offices.”

The Kansas attorney general and the solicitor general have both been sanctioned $1 because of a filing in the ongoing legal battle over gender markers on driver's licenses.

An estimated 500 Kansans, representing several different causes and organizations, like Mainstream Civic Action, El Centro and the ACLU of Kansas, chanted, sang and listened to impassioned speeches for some two hours.

Kansas’ failed proof of citizenship law could serve as a cautionary tale for Congress and other states just beginning to craft similar voting restrictions, a report found.