Local elected officials plan this coming week to consider banning the use of “no knock” search warrants in Topeka and extending a Shawnee County state of disaster emergency. … The city’s mayor and council plan to consider Councilman Spencer Duncan’s proposal to ban the use of no knock warrants while also putting in place requirements regarding the use of body cameras during the execution of search warrants and the retention of data recorded by those cameras. The Topeka Police Department has not used no knock warrants “for a long, long time,” Police Chief Bill Cochran said in a recent Topeka Capital-Journal podcast.
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