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Kansas Court of Appeals rules CoreCivic can’t house ICE detainees without Leavenworth permit
CoreCivic can’t house immigration detainees before reaching an agreement with the city of Leavenworth on reopening its private prison, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday when it upheld a lower court’s decision.
Kansas Court of Appeals rules CoreCivic can’t house ICE detainees without Leavenworth permit
CoreCivic can’t house immigration detainees before reaching an agreement with the city of Leavenworth on reopening its private prison, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday when it upheld a lower court’s decision.
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Now-withdrawn affidavit in Marion County Record raid shows police ignored Kansas open records laws
The now-withdrawn documents used to justify a search of the Marion County Record show that the police chief knew a reporter was verifying the authenticity of a local business owner’s driving record by searching on a public website — which is legal under Kansas law.
Co-owner of Kansas newspaper, who died amid stress from police raid, honored in funeral service
Joan Meyer, surrounded by flowers and escorted to her gravesite by the same police force that may have had a hand in her death, was honored by the community in a Saturday service.
Judge allows transgender Kansans to intervene in Kobach’s driver’s license lawsuit
A district judge has granted a motion allowing transgender Kansans to intervene in AG Kris Kobach’s lawsuit that would require Kansas driver’s licenses to list an individual’s sex assigned at birth instead of their gender.
Kobach: KBI looking into possible data breach in Kansas newspaper case
Kansas AG Kris Kobach says state authorities reviewing alleged crimes associated with the raid of a Marion newspaper are interested in whether someone breached the Kansas Criminal Justice Information System.
A Kansas town’s taxpayers may have to pay up after police raided its newspaper
The police raid on the Marion County Record potentially violated federal law and constitutional rights. It could leave taxpayers covering a big legal settlement.
Marion County Record publishes in defiance of police raid — and gets seized property back
Marion County Record staff worked through the night to publish the paper’s weekly edition after police raided the newsroom and confiscated computers, cellphones and other items. Authorities also returned property the police took.
Governor, legislators agree to settle lawsuit for $11.25 million with Kansan exonerated of murder
House and Senate lawmakers and Gov. Laura Kelly agreed Wednesday to settle for $11.25 million a lawsuit brought by exoneree Floyd Bledsoe that accused Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Jefferson County officials of misconduct in a notorious murder case.
Attorneys battle over request for transgender Kansans to intervene in driver’s license lawsuit
A judge said Wednesday she would quickly respond to a request by transgender Kansans to intervene in a lawsuit filed by AG Kris Kobach seeking affirmation of his belief a new state law required driver’s licenses to reflect a person’s sex assigned at birth.
Inside the Marion County Record: Staff rushed to publish a newspaper after the police raid
Journalists at the Marion County Record worked late into the night to publish their first issue since the widely-criticized raid. “SEIZED… but not silenced,” its headline read.
Dolly Parton celebrates statewide expansion in Kansas of literacy program for children
Musician and literacy advocate Dolly Parton celebrated with Gov. Laura Kelly Kansas’ statewide expansion of a program delivering to children an age-appropriate book each month through their fifth birthday.
Kansas continues to break legal promise to children in foster care system, report shows
An independent evaluation of the Kansas foster care system showed the state, for a second year in a row, failed to make progress in several key areas, and had even more children sleeping in offices than the previous year.
Marion newspaper’s lawyer chastises police for treating newspaper as ‘drug cartel,’ ‘street gang’
The Society of Professional Journalists’ board unanimously offered $20,000 to the Marion County Record for legal costs in wake of the seizure of newspaper and personal property by local law enforcement.
KBI director on Marion County newspaper raid: Media is not ‘above the law’
The top law enforcement officer in Kansas appeared to justify a Marion County search warrant that led to an unprecedented raid on a local newspaper and potentially contributed to the death of the paper’s co-owner.
Police defend raid on Kansas newspaper amid backlash over ‘brazen violation of press freedom’
Marion County police on Saturday defended their unprecedented raid on a newspaper office and the publisher’s home, and the publisher’s mother died from stress.
Police stage ‘chilling’ raid on Marion County newspaper, seizing computers, records and cellphones
In an unprecedented raid Friday, local law enforcement seized computers, cellphones and reporting materials from the Marion County Record office, the newspaper’s reporters, and the publisher’s home.
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