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.
Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus is shown on Sept. 13, 2018.
Kansas’ Office of the Attorney General said Friday that the University of Kansas was not breaking state law by keeping the meetings of its pandemic advisory team private.
The nine-member team of medical professionals and KU leaders, known as PMAT, was established in June to help inform the university’s decisions related to the COVID-19 pandemic. In early September, the Journal-World reported that KU declined to answer whether the group’s weekly meetings were open to the public and that the university had not kept any minutes of the past meetings.
Women to make up majority of Riley County Law Board in 2021
For the first time since its creation in 1974, the board that governs the Riley County Police Department will have four women on it in 2021.
Manhattan City Commissioner Linda Morse and incoming Riley County Commissioner Kathryn Focke are the two elected representatives to the Law Board. BeAtta Stoney and Patricia Hudgins are the two citizen representatives. Morse and Stoney were both reappointed to their positions. It’s the first time women will make up the majority of the voting body.
Stoney and Hudgins were both nominated by the Manhattan City Commission. Outgoing law board member Wynn Butler explains the process for selecting new Law Board members.
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Emails reveal what was discussed in Shawnee mayor case. Did it violate Kansas law? Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
Dec. 24 An email chain that ultimately led to a perjury charge against Shawnee Mayor Michelle Distler started with an activist who was upset about her refusal to break a tie for the city council president.
Mike Egan, a former Shawnee resident who now lives in Missouri s Ozarks but still uses email to regularly chime in on Shawnee civic affairs, sent a March 5 email to Distler, four council members and others who keep tabs on City Hall.
Egan s email, obtained by The Star through a Kansas Open Records Act request, blasted Distler for not breaking a 4-4 tie to choose a council president in January. Distler said at the time that she didn t want to insert herself in the vote, fearing it would make the Council appear even more divisive.