A prominent Kansas University student arrested earlier this month on suspicion of drug possession has not been charged.

Kennedi Grant, 20, a student leader and diversity activist at KU, was arrested Feb. 5 on suspicion of possession of marijuana, a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia. She was released from the Douglas County Jail after posting $5,000 bond and was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for a first appearance.

Kennedi Grant

However, Grant’s first appearance was canceled after her case was referred to Lawrence Municipal Court, said Cheryl Wright Kunard, assistant to the Douglas County district attorney.

Supervising City Prosecutor Elizabeth Hafoka said her office has yet to receive Grant’s case, but once it does, it will be reviewed and a charging decision will be made.

“If we decide not to file charges, it’s closed, and if we decide to file, we’ll issue a summons, ask the court to send a notice to appear and assign a court date,” Hafoka said.

In November, Grant, who was president of KU’s Black Student Union, and a group of students calling themselves Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk interrupted Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little and other students as they spoke on stage at a KU town hall forum on race. The group issued a list of diversity-related demands.

Grant, who identified herself as Kynnedi Grant to the Journal-World, said from the stage that she and some friends were verbally and physically assaulted at an off-campus house party on Halloween, called racial slurs and had a gun pulled on them.

She accused Lawrence police of failing to investigate the incident because she and her friends are black.

A police report was filed, however. The case remains under investigation by Lawrence police, according to Lawrence police Sgt. Trent McKinley.

Grant does not have any prior criminal records in Douglas County District Court.