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Jun 13, 2019
Shawnee Mission School Leaders Apologize For Violating Students' Freedom Of Speech
Student plaintiffs from a National School Walkout lawsuit have received their letters of apology from the Shawnee Mission School District.
Jun 11, 2019
Many Kansas Inmates Will Wait For Hepatitis C Treatment Despite Recent Legal Settlement
Kansas can no longer put off care for Medicaid patients with hepatitis C because of a recent legal settlement. But hundreds of the state’s prison inmates not covered by that lawsuit will have to wait another year for the pricey treatment.
Jun 11, 2019
Shawnee Mission administration sends apology letters to student plaintiffs in 1st Amendment case
As part of compliance with the settlement agreement approved by a federal judge in April, the Shawnee Mission School District has issued letters of apology to students who sued the district last year for violating their 1st Amendment rights during the National School Walkout protests in spring 2018.
Jun 03, 2019
An administrator confiscated a student photojournalist’s camera. He may have broken the law.
The school district said in a statement that the parties have agreed to collaborate on First Amendment training for all district administrators, adopt policy language in the district that clarifies the First Amendment rights of student journalists.
May 09, 2019
Bonds hopes to promote civil rights in Hutchinson
Before Lauren Bonds became legal director of the ACLU of Kansas, then became interim director, before she went to law school and became a civil rights lawyer, she knew what discrimination was like in Hutchinson.
May 08, 2019
Q&A with ACLU’s Lauren Bonds
The American Civil Liberties Union is pursuing twice as many lawsuits in Kansas under legal director Lauren Bonds than before she arrived.
May 02, 2019
Kansas Legislature fails to override Kelly on vetoed abortion bill
“This law requires doctors to work against their own Hippocratic oath, and politicians should not be intruding on the doctor-patient relationship, inserting falsehoods in their crusade to violate women’s agency and reproductive freedoms,” said Letitia Harmon, policy director at the Kansas ACLU.
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