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State Government May 14, 2024 - 6:54 pm

Kansas AG sues Biden administration over new federal protections for LGBTQ+ students

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced Tuesday he has sued President Joe Biden’s administration over the rewrite of federal rules to protect LGBTQ+ students.

State Government March 11, 2024 - 7:10 pm

Kansas court upholds AG Kobach’s argument in transgender driver’s license case

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

A district court has sided with Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach on a temporary block to keep Kansas residents from changing the gender listed on their drivers’ licenses.

State Government November 20, 2023 - 6:34 pm

ACLU of Kansas argues against Kobach request for temporary injunction in driver’s license case

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

The ACLU argued in a court filing Monday the state’s Republican attorney general shouldn’t be granted a temporary injunction forbidding Kansans to change driver’s licenses to affirm their gender identity.

Crime & Courts November 3, 2023 - 3:03 pm

Kansas Supreme Court set to consider protections for voting rights

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

Kansas AG Kris Kobach made his case Friday that voting rights should not be given the same protection as other constitutional rights, hoping to sway the court over to his side in the latest twist of a long-lasting legal battle over 2021 election laws. 

State Government November 1, 2023 - 2:39 pm

Kobach proposes fingerprinting, background checks of all Kansas public school employees

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

AG Kris Kobach has recommended passage of a law requiring all Kansas public school district employees undergo criminal background investigations, and he proposed comparable checks for contractors delivering Medicaid services to students.

Health October 4, 2023 - 4:58 pm

Kansas child death report shows increase in gun-related deaths, suicides

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

State officials warned that fentanyl has become a significant threat to Kansas adolescents, though numbers for child homicide and suicide still far outstrip child drug-related deaths.

State Government September 15, 2023 - 4:56 pm

Transgender Kansans barred from altering birth certificates

by Rachel Mipro, Kansas Reflector

The state will no longer recognize transgender Kansans’ identities, reversing birth records back to assigned sex at birth and halting future modifications of birth certificates following a federal judge’s ruling.

State Government August 31, 2023 - 5:30 pm

Federal judge upends court order allowing transgender Kansans to alter birth certificates

by Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

A judge granted AG Kris Kobach’s request to significantly undermine provisions of a 2019 consent judgment granting transgender people born in Kansas the right to amend birth certificates to match their gender identities.

State Government August 18, 2023 - 2:09 pm

Judge allows transgender Kansans to intervene in Kobach’s driver’s license lawsuit

by Sam Bailey, Kansas Reflector

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.

State News August 17, 2023 - 11:47 am

Kobach: KBI looking into possible data breach in Kansas newspaper case

by Sherman Smith and Tim Carpenter, Kansas Reflector

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.

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