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State News July 14, 2021 - 2:25 pm

Kansas judge to decide whether secretary of state can hide public records by altering software

by Sherman Smith, Kansas Reflector

An attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas says the state’s open records law might as well not exist if Secretary of State Scott Schwab is allowed to keep public information hidden by reconfiguring software.

State News June 28, 2021 - 2:33 pm

U.S. Supreme Court affirms transgender rights in declining to hear school bathroom case

by Laura Olson, Kansas Reflector

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will not hear a case of a transgender student in Virginia who was barred from using the boys’ bathroom, a decision that affirms lower-court rulings that said treating transgender students differently violates federal law.