When it comes to school resource officers in Lawrence schools, Superintendent Anthony Lewis said he will not tolerate any racial profiling of students. But the school district may need to take steps to make sure that doesn’t happen, he said Monday at the school board’s meeting. Those steps may include helping students build relationships with the police officers and making sure students, faculty and staff ...
The Lawrence school board will soon learn how much it may cost to keep its school resource officer program. The board on Monday will receive a report about the Lawrence Police Department program that puts officers in schools, including how much it would potentially cost the school district to retain those services if the City of Lawrence chooses to quit funding it. Ron May, the district’s director of safety ...
A group that opposes the planned expansion of the Douglas County Jail is pursuing two studies that it believes will identify underlying issues contributing to overpopulation of the jail. Leaders of the faith-based activist group Justice Matters told the Journal-World recently that they wanted county leaders to wait until those studies are completed before they consider giving final approval to a $29.6 million ...
A Douglas County high school student has been rewarded for his academic excellence in the face of adversity. Connor Schmidt, a senior at Eudora High School, was selected as one of the 106 high school students across the nation to earn the 2020 Horatio Alger National Scholarship, according to a news release from the organization. The $25,000 scholarship recognizes students from low-income households who have ...
After several Big Springs residents voiced opposition to proposed changes to the Douglas County zoning regulations, county planning staff recently offered a new district just for their community. Big Springs is an unincorporated community in northwest Douglas County, located along U.S. Highway 40. Planner Mary Miller on Wednesday told the Lawrence-Douglas County Metropolitan Planning Commission that the ...
Douglas County may have the legal authority to use a sales tax approved by voters in 1994 to finance a nearly $30 million expansion of its jail, but that doesn't mean it's ethical, community activists argued on Wednesday. Joanna Harader, a member of the faith-based social activist group Justice Matters, told the Douglas County Commission during its weekly meeting that she believes the county should again allow ...