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Kansas Reflector screen capture from Shana Leacox video
New Kansas law limits efforts to document ICE activity. Video shows how officers utilize the law.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded a Lenexa woman recording video from her car as an officer shouted “25 feet, 25 feet” and ordered her to move back July 11 in Olathe.
She couldn’t move because they had trapped her.
Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach called for the classification of mifepristone, an abortion medication, as a water contaminant in a June 5 letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency despite his past efforts to decrease water contaminant
regulation.Mifepristone is a part of a two-drug prescription regimen to terminate a pregnancy through 10 weeks.
Janice Powers treats her hormonal disorder with the abortion pill Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and attorneys general from other states want to regulate as a water contaminant.
Mifepristone, a medication researchers have found to be safe
The officer’s command referenced a Kansas law called the Halo Act. Effective July 1, it criminalized “unlawfully approaching” law enforcement officers or first responders within 25 feet under certain circumstances. The law changed how people like Shana Leacox document ICE activity. read more
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After fighting clean water rules, Kansas attorney general argues abortion pill is a contaminant
It is safe, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The letter, signed by 14 Republican state attorneys general, including Kobach, said after mifepristone is ingested and processed through women’s bodies, the drug’s chemical compounds contaminate the water supply. read more
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Kansas AG’s proposed restriction on mifepristone would impact more than abortion patients
and effective, is commonly prescribed as part of a two-pill regimen to terminate a first-trimester pregnancy. It also can treat other conditions. read more
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Kansas educators, task force members wrangle over data as school funding hangs in the balance
A Lawrence second grade teacher said educators in the beginning their careers would suffer if the state cut paraprofessionals, a move suggested by a presenter to the task force working on Kansas’ next school finance formula.
After the meeting last week, Lori Greenfield of Prairie Park
Elementary said new teachers depend on behavioral specialists and classroom assistants.
“They’re either going to stay with the profession or they’re going to quit because they have no one backing them,” she said. read more