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Kansas City police board files lawsuit against city leaders over budget measure


Kansas City police board files lawsuit against city leaders over budget measure
Glenn E. Rice and Steve Vockrodt, The Kansas City Star
May 28 The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners on Friday voted 4-1 to file a lawsuit against Mayor Quinton Lucas and the City Council, after the City Council approved a measure that gives the city authority over a portion of the police department s budget.
The lawsuit was filed in Jackson County Circuit Court.
Lucas, one of the five police commissioners, voted against the decision.
Several police board members have opposed a City Council measure passed last Thursday on a 9-4 vote to cut this year s police budget back to 20% of the city s general fund, the minimum required by Missouri law. ....

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