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This Monday, the Kansas Department of Disability and Aging Services announced a historic settlement with the National Police Accountability Project and the ACLU of Kansas to reduce the wait times for people awaiting competency evaluations and restoration services at Larned State Hospital.
The statewide, nonpartisan Election Protection program responding to voter issues in Kansas will enter its seventh year this election.
A new report from the ACLU of Kansas finds that a shockingly large number of Kansans—nearly 85,000, or 1 in every 35 people in the state, are returning citizens who have completed sentences for past felonies and are eligible to register and vote under Kansas law.
The Board of Commissioners will hear testimony and consider a resolution introduced by Mayor Garner. The resolution calls on Secretary of State Scott Schwab and Wyandotte County Election Commissioner Michael Abbott to provide better language access for voters through translated election materials.
Hearings will begin Monday in a sweeping challenge to the constitutionality of the death penalty in Kansas and to the practice of death qualification, which disproportionately excludes those who oppose the death penalty from juries, such as Black prospective jurors, women, and people of faith.
The ACLU and its co-counsel argue that death qualification is discriminatory, unconstitutional, and undermines the principles at the core of the legal system.