Kansas City strikes jaywalking law amid push to address racial disparities in policing Bill Lukitsch, The Kansas City Star
May 6 Kansas City s elected officials have eliminated jaywalking and two other minor offenses amid a push to reform city laws that are disproportionately applied to people of color.
Sponsoring the legislation was Mayor Quinton Lucas, who has pointed to the changes as part of an effort to decriminalize aspects of daily existence for Kansas Citians and eliminating our enforcement disparities by race at their foundations. It cleared the City Council Thursday by a vote of 10-0.
The legislation strikes jaywalking from the city s code of ordinances altogether. It also removes penalties for operating passenger vehicles, bicycles and electric micromobility devices like the city s rentable scooters with dirty tires. And, it removes language that allows bicycles to be inspected by law enforcement in situations where reasonable cause leads p
May 5 A proposal that would eliminate penalties for jaywalking and other pedestrian offenses cleared an initial hurdle as Kansas City leaders explore changes aimed at reforming laws that disproportionately harm people of color. Members of the city's Transportation, Infrastructure and Operations Committee recommended removing jaywalking offenses from traffic codes during a meeting Wednesday. It .
Homage to Lewis Warsh: Collage Prose Poems
LITERARY
Andrea Clark Libin is a Brooklyn-based writer, teacher, and the author & artist of the novella,
Orphan of the Moon Notebook of a Girl in a Moscow Train Station (Wet Cement Press), a 2020 Finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry, from which these pieces are excerpted.
Footnote:
Homage to Lewis Warsh, who was a poet, a prose writer, and one of the founding professors of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus. Professor Warsh passed away on November 15, 2020. His students and friends honored his memory…writing.
Waverley Court in Crewe. (Image: Cheshire-Live)
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