Release Date: Jan 14, 2021 TOPEKA – (January 14, 2021) – Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt last week executed a settlement with two members of the Lincoln County Commission to resolve a violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act (KOMA). In March 2020, the Office of Attorney General received a complaint alleging the Lincoln County Commission, specifically members Alexis Pflugh and Randy Lohmann, failed to notify the public of a meeting. Upon investigation, the attorney general’s office determined that Pflugh and Lohmann violated the KOMA by participating in simultaneous Facebook postings discussing county business in February 2020. Commissioner James Gabelmann did not participate in the Facebook exchanges.
Posted By: George Lawson January 11, 2021 @ 10:00 am Local News, News
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt is asking for more bipartisan efforts to combat human trafficking in the state. He made the request Monday, on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, as state lawmakers go back to Topeka to begin their 2021 session.
Schmidt said he will ask for the reintroduction of two bills from last year that failed to pass when the COVID-19 pandemic brought an early end to the legislative session.
One bill will require the posting of the National Human Trafficking Hotline in certain businesses and public places. Posting the hotline, 1-888-373-7888, helps connect victims to services and encourages the public to report potential trafficking.
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Topeka, KS (WorkersCompensation.com) - The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of an amendment to the Kansas Workers Compensation Act that adopted more recent guidelines for assessing medical impairment, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said. Our position has been that the Legislature had authority to update the law as it did, said Schmidt, whose office successfully defended the statute after intervening in the case to request the Kansas Supreme Court s review. Today the Supreme Court agreed. We have successfully defended this duly enacted state law.
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday unanimously reversed the Court of Appeals 2018 ruling that had found the updated law unconstitutional. In today s opinion, the court ruled that the law does not violate Section 18 of the Kansas Bill of Rights because the use of medical evaluation guidelines only serves as a base for determining compensation, while the law still requires
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TOPEKA – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is accepting entries for the 2021 Missing Children’s Day poster contest, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt announced.
All Kansas fifth-grade students, from public, private, or home schools, are invited to create and submit artwork that represents the contest theme “Bringing Our Missing Children Home.” The artwork must be original, handcrafted, 8 ½ x 14 inches in size, and contain the words “Bringing Our Missing Children Home.”