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The social justice group More2 is renewing its call for a federal civil rights investigation of the Kansas City, Kansas Police Department.

Voters can name whoever they want for the June 20 election, but two candidates are explicitly seeking the role — Spark Bookhart, who trains parents to influence public education through the Parent Power Lab, and Robert Sagastume, a senior student adviser with the Hispanic Development Fund. The post Who do you pick when there’s no one on the ballot? These KCPS candidates want your vote appeared first on The Beacon.

Robert Sagastume and Spark Bookhart are the declared write-in KCPS school board candidates for Subdistrict 3.

Mayor Tyrone Garner removed Rick Behrens, a longtime social justice advocate who spoke out against the actions of former police detective Roger Golubski, from the Law Enforcement Advisory Board. Garner appointed Behrens just a year ago.

Residents of Kansas City, Kansas, had been sounding alarms about detective Roger Golubski and corruption in the police department for decades. But city leaders did nothing. It wasn’t until a year after KCUR started working on this podcast that the FBI finally arrested Golubski — on just a fraction of his alleged crimes. What does justice look like after all these years?