As overcrowding strains Southeast High School, the Wichita school board will consider altering district boundaries to move some students to another high school. Southeast’s functional building capacity is 1,982 students. This year, the school enrolled 2,192 students, the second most of any Wichita high school behind East. “Building and classroom safety due to overcrowding at Southeast is a problem that will continue to harm students and faculty at Southeast until we do something about it,” debate teacher Michael Harris told the board of education last month. Source: Wichita Eagle

Where are you going, where have you been — and where are you right now? If the answer is Wichita, and you got there by motor vehicle, it’s likely the Wichita Police Department already knows. Or it can find out with a reasonable degree of certainty using its Flock Safety license plate reader surveillance system, a high-powered database that has helped Wichita police rescue kidnapped children, arrest murder suspects and recover stolen vehicles. But the power of Flock — which has been used by Wichita police since 2020 — comes with privacy concerns. Source: Wichita Eagle

Roughly 200 voters in rural areas outside Colwich and Garden Plain were able to vote in city elections after a mistake by the Sedgwick County Election office didn’t provide them with a separate ballot. Election Commissioner Angela Caudillo said they learned about the mistake midday Friday when the Garden Plain city clerk emailed them that a voter said they lived outside of town but had city council races on their ballot. Caudillo said they looked into Colwich after that because that city also had a precinct that covers the city and rural area. They found the same problem there — that [...]