Do you want to become a more effective citizen journalist to keep your local government more accountable?
If you do, I will be hosting investigative journalism workshops as part of the Kansas City Post-Party Summit to be held this Friday and Saturday May 7-8 in Kansas City.
If you are not interested in citizen journalism, but want [...]
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Today’s Kansas Government Ethics teleconference meeting dealt with two requests for waivers of civil penalties for late lobbyist reports, and two opinion requests about outside employment by state workers.
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In a case involving widespread rumors at the state capitol, politics, and an exception provided by an old law, the Kansas Ethics Commission ruled that House Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) had not violated state ethics laws.
The complaint was brought by Democratic State Rep Marti Crow (D-Leavenworth) after O’Neals wife was hired by the chief of [...]
Frustrated that the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission took no action on a complaint, last August Kris Van Meteren talked to the press explaining some details in his complaint. But, Kansas law currently gags someone after filing an ethics complaint — even after the Commission fails to act — and Van Meteren was fined $7500 [...]
[Updated] The election process is confusing enough to voters without intentional misrepresentation via new media on Twitter and blogs.
Yesterday, someone used Kris Kobach’s name to setup a fake Twitter account, which could be used to send out Tweets that appear to be from the Kansas Secretary of State candidate. Obviously such messages could be used [...]
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On Wednesday, at the monthly meeting of the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission, Executive Director Carol Williams explained three changes to ethics laws in Kansas recently enacted by the Kansas legislature.
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After a secret Executive Session held by telephone conference call today, the Ethics Commission announced the complaint was being dropped against Kris Van Meteren for violation of Ethics Commission confidentiality rules. Van Meteren was fined $7500 in Feb. by the Ethics Commission.
The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission released an opinion from the Attorney General’s office about [...]
Kris Van Meteren was fined $7500 by the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission in February in somewhat of an unusual case.
In March Van Meteren filed a law suit in Shawnee County District Court asking for judicial review of the case.
There was secret hour-long Executive Session during the April Ethics Commission meeting, with a member of the [...]
The Ethics Commission announced this morning a change in the location and the agenda for their monthly meeting scheduled for Wednesday. The meeting is back in the Commission’s conference room and will now only be a telephone conference call.
One big item has been dropped from the current agenda: The public hearing of complaint No. 443 [...]
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Today the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission announced that their next meeting would be on Wed., May 13 at 1:00 PM in the Training Room for the Department of Agriculture on the 4th Floor of 109 SW 9th in Topeka. Normally, the Ethics Commission holds their meetings in their conference room on the 5th floor at [...]
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