Douglas County law enforcement groups can take several steps to help keep people with serious mental illnesses from repeatedly ending up in jail.
And some of those steps are already underway and could have an immediate effect.
“A lot of these things have already been implemented,” said Kati Habert, who presented a set of recommendations on the issue to the Douglas County Criminal Justice Coordinating ...
A rural Douglas County family now has the authority to build and operate an event center on their land, despite some neighbors voicing opposition to their plans.
The Douglas County Commission unanimously approved issuing a conditional use permit to Eugene George and his family to build the event center on the family’s 80-acre property on 1500 Road, about half a mile north of North 900 Road.
Once built, the ...
A family hoping to open an event center on their rural property will try for a second time to earn the approval of the Douglas County Commission.
The commission during its next meeting will consider awarding a conditional use permit to Eugene George and his family to build and operate the event center. If approved, the event center — to be named George’s Event Center — would be built on the family’s ...
Students of the Lawrence school district may soon have a new set of criteria for how they can dress at school.
The Lawrence school board on Monday gave initial approval to a proposed dress code policy change that would more specifically outline what students are and are not allowed to wear while they are at school.
School board members and parents who spoke in support of the policy hope the change will ...
The Lawrence and Douglas County community will soon have a housing campus dedicated to serving those with mental health and substance abuse disorders.
However, a funding gap for the multimillion-dollar construction project is not yet resolved and could end up being the financial responsibility of the county government. The gap has emerged after the project failed to win a $360,000 federal grant that had been ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider revising its student dress code policy, possibly installing one with more specific rules for what students can wear and how the policy may be enforced.
The school district’s board policy committee has been working to update the dress code policy because of concerns that the current policy is too broad. The current policy essentially says any clothing that has ...
