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Prairie Village City Council unanimously rejected adopting a new Kansas law requiring a 25-foot buffer from first responders and law enforcement. However, officers can still invoke the law in the city. Here’s where other cities in Johnson County stand.

Officials are pursuing the change after learning that the city’s public safety sales tax would not cover an all-new jail and other key projects as planned.

Every four years, most Missouri counties elect a sheriff to lead law enforcement efforts. That process is outlined in state statute, but if voters approve Amendment 8 at the polls on Nov. 3, the election of sheriffs will also be required in the state constitution. Plus, 30 years ago, roadrunners were spotted in only 28 counties in Kansas, or about a fourth of the state. But a changing climate has pushed the birds north to new territory.

Shawn Harris initially pleaded not guilty in the 2025 killing of Ming during a shootout in the Argentine neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. As part of a new plea deal, prosecutors will seek life imprisonment charges.

The temporary jail was supposed to be open for the World Cup, but city officials now say it probably won’t open until next year.

Wichita police say a 34-year-old woman from Garden City has been released pending the results of a toxicology report and a vehicle inspection.

The legislature has yet to pass Erin’s Law, mandating child abuse prevention education, and other laws advocates say could strengthen protections for children.

At the first of five public listening sessions across the city, Kansas City residents gathered in a Northland community center to express their opinions about a new KCPD chief.

Regulations for automated license plate readers have been revised twice this year by police Chief Doreen Jokerst, who took over the department in October 2024.

Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, of Missouri, introduced the Stop Flock Abuse Act, calling the automated license plate reader system “a nightmare for individual liberties.”

Hawley said his main worries were personal privacy and that people have the right to be treated as innocent until proven guilty.

A recent KCUR analysis reveals that data gathered by Kansas City-area Flock cameras has been searched hundreds of thousands of times by out-of-state police departments. Across the city, residents are concerned by how that data is being used.