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The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas condemned a school district’s discussed transgender policy as potentially illegal and harmful, in anticipation of a deciding vote on the matter.

In 2020, the ACLU of Kansas sued the Kansas Highway Patrol over a technique colloquially called the “Kansas Two Step,” in which a trooper at the end of a traffic stop takes a couple steps away and then returns to the vehicle to ask more questions, used often with people traveling from Colorado.

Sharon Brett, legal director for the ACLU of Kansas, said the case could have widespread implications for an unknown number of people on probation throughout the state who are living below the poverty level.

Secretary of State Scott Schwab is refusing to turn over provisional ballot records in advance of the primary election, despite an appeals court ruling that says he is violating state open records law.

Claims made by campaigns for and against a constitutional amendment undoing Kansans’ right to an abortion look like descriptions of two different realities.

Sharon Brett, Legal Director of the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), discusses their work with Radio Active Magazine regular Craig Lubow.

Voters in Atchison, Kansas, will once again be able to register to vote in next month’s primary election. “The fact that folks were going to be denied the ability to vote in that is a really serious problem," said Micah Kubic, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas.

“We shouldn’t be amending the constitution to restrict peoples’ rights,” ACLU of Kansas Executive Director Micah Kubic says. “It’s inconsistent with our values as Americans and deeply dangerous.”

As a civil rights attorney, I believe deeply in the right of people to practice their religion. But I believe just as deeply in the right of people to live free from any government entanglement with religion.