Three Lawrence residents have been selected to serve on a state commission focused on issues of racial equity in justice.
Gov. Laura Kelly announced in a news release on Wednesday that she signed an executive order to create the commission, which will first work on community relations of Kansas law enforcement. The 14-member commission includes Lawrence Superintendent Anthony Lewis and University of Kansas ...
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A local activist group and others do not have legal standing to challenge Douglas County’s plan to expand its jail, a judge has ruled.
In a Tuesday court filing, Judge James Fleetwood dismissed a lawsuit in Douglas County District Court filed by faith-based activist group Justice Matters and others that aimed to halt the controversial project.
In the suit, Justice Matters and its allies ...
To help address a looming inmate population crisis at the Douglas County Jail, criminal justice leaders are working to make the local court system more efficient, said Criminal Justice Coordinator Mike Brouwer.
During the County Commission meeting on Wednesday, Brouwer reported to the commissioners some steps the Lawrence Municipal Court and the Douglas County District Court are taking to help reduce the number ...
The Douglas County Commission will again consider solutions to a possible looming population crisis at the county jail.
Criminal Justice Coordinator Mike Brouwer said in a memo to the commissioners that he continued to meet with local criminal justice leaders to discuss how to decrease jail use. During the commission’s meeting on Wednesday, Brouwer is expected to update the commissioners on the status of ...
A group of about 50 protesters gathered outside the Lawrence school district’s administrative offices on Monday to demand action related to the Black Lives Matter movement and a recent paraeducator unionization effort.
Prior to the Lawrence school board meeting, members of the protesting group — known as the Lawrence Education Justice Collective — called for the school district to remove police from ...
Despite Lawrence’s abolitionist past, a local elementary school happens to bear the name of an early U.S. political leader who was not only a slave owner but an advocate for keeping the slave trade legal in the United States.
While Pinckney Elementary School was not formally named in honor of Charles Pinckney, a former governor of South Carolina and one of the delegates who crafted the U.S. Constitution, the ...
