Parson will sign Missouri bills on KCPD residency, school choice, police bill of rights Jeanne Kuang and Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
Jul. 10 JEFFERSON CITY Kansas City police will be able to live outside the city, and a voucher-like school choice program will launch in Missouri, under new laws Gov. Mike Parson will sign next week.
Parson on Friday announced several measures he will sign next Wednesday, his deadline to either sign or veto bills on his desk before they become law on their own.
They include a controversial bill of rights for police, the school choice bill, a long-sought hike to the gas tax and oversight to curb abuse in unlicensed, religious boarding schools.
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The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has voted to explore legal action against a plan by Mayor Quinton Lucas to get more local control of the police department.
Mayor Quinton Lucas faces potential blocks from the police board, state Republicans and Northland city council members, but civil rights groups are praising the plan to get more local control of the police budget.
The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners has voted to seek legal redress against a plan by one of its own members who is trying to get more local control of the police department and move away from state hands.
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Missouri lawmakers vow restrictions after Lucas moves for more KCPD spending control Jeanne Kuang and Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
May 24 JEFFERSON CITY Local control of the Kansas City Police Department will go nowhere in the Missouri General Assembly, lawmakers vowed Monday, after Mayor Quinton Lucas and a supermajority of the City Council voted to give City Hall a say in part of the department s budget.
Two Kansas City-area lawmakers said they will file legislation to stop such police budget changes in the future. They also are considering penalties for requiring that the Board of Kansas City Police Commissioners negotiate with the city over how to spend $42.3 million in department funds.