The Douglas County Commission has added some high priorities to its legislative wish list for 2019: more funding for courts and community corrections, and reforms to the permitting process that utility regulators use for saltwater injection wells.
Commissioners approved the county's 2019 legislative priorities at their regular Wednesday meeting. Each year, the county compiles the list and asks the local members ...
The Douglas County Commission will consider Wednesday supporting a platform in 2019 that calls on the Kansas Legislature to start looking at comprehensive criminal justice reform.
In a memo to commissioners, Douglas County Administrator Craig Weinaug wrote that voter dissatisfaction with alternatives to harsh sentencing guidelines and a desire for additional alternatives to incarceration contributed to the ...
The Douglas County Commission soon will get details of a new county jail expansion plan that could commit future commissions to annual bond payments of up to $2.9 million, even though the plan wouldn't require a vote of the public.
Details of what Undersheriff Gary Bunting will recommend for the jail and its cost are not yet known. After Bunting gave a presentation last month on current jail conditions with a ...
It "would take a generation" to unify the governments of Douglas County and the city of Lawrence, even if there were a general agreement to do so, a man who led the effort that created the Wyandotte County Unified Government told the Douglas County Commission on Wednesday.
Douglas County commissioners invited Kevin Kelley, director of the Dwayne Peaslee Technical Training Center, to speak about his experience ...
The Douglas County Commission agreed Wednesday to put off a decision on whether to start charging some nonprofits to use the county fairgrounds, citing confusion about what types of organizations the new language would affect.
Under the current fee structure, youth organizations and nonprofits with 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status are allowed to use the fairgrounds for free. The proposed changes to the fee structure ...
The Douglas County Commission on Wednesday will consider appointing Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky as interim county administrator while commissioners conduct a search to replace retiring County Administrator Craig Weinaug.
With approval of the contract, Plinsky, who has served as assistant county administrator for eight years, will assume duties as county administrator on Dec. 15, the day after ...
