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A recommendation to ban pet stores from selling dogs and cats from breeders gained approval from Wichita’s Animal Control Advisory Board on Wednesday. Board members said the recommendation will be sent to the Wichita Police Department and then to the City Council. The two Wichita Petland stores both sell animals from breeders. Owners of both the east and west Petland stores spoke against the recommendation at the meeting.
Source: Wichita Eagle
Silver Lake Chief of Police Marc McCune took to social media to make a statement on the school shooting that took place in Uvalde, Texas on May 24. McCune said he has studied the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School that killed 19 children and two teachers in detail, reviewing law enforcement-only information releases and that what he has seen has sickened him. … McCune reassured parents ahead of the start of the school year, which is August 17, that Silver Lake officers have a great deal of knowledge, training and experience in active threat response and will deploy without hesitation or awaiting authorization/backup in the case of an active school shooter scenario.
Source: KSNT 27 News
The Lawrence Police Department has now fully transitioned to the use of “less-lethal” shotguns. According to the LKPD, the traditional shotguns that have been in use since the 1970’s have now been fully retired and all ammunition has been safely disposed of. Officers on the force will complete training with the new shotguns this week. “Since I began my journey to reimagine policing in Lawrence, I knew this change would take place. When they’re able, officers already utilize safer compliance options such as pepper spray and tasers, so this decision was essentially a no-brainer,” said LKPD Police Chief Rich Lockhart. “No one wants an incident with a deadly outcome; not the police, not the community, and certainly not the person in crisis nor that person’s family.”
Source: KSNT 27 News
Governor Laura Kelly today announced that registration for the 2022 Kansas Renewable Energy Conference is now open. The conference is an annual event held by the Kansas Department of Commerce to showcase the latest industry trends and developments. … The conference will be held October 3-4 in Manhattan and will be in-person for the first time since 2019. The day-and-a-half conference will feature three general sessions and several breakout sessions focused on solar energy and storage, hydrogen, wind energy and transmission, transportation innovation, and an overview of how the public and private sectors are working together to advance the renewable energy industry in Kansas. Attendees will include industry experts, wind and solar developers, manufacturers, utilities, community leaders, and related business representatives. …A complete itinerary and online registration is available at www.kansascommerce.gov/renewable-energy-conference.
Source: Kansas Department of Commerce
…Bernalillo County, which includes Albuquerque, suspended such trials for much of 2020 and 2021. Meanwhile, new cases kept pouring in, partly as a result of the surge in violent crime that accompanied the pandemic. … Six hundred miles east of Albuquerque, in Wichita, Kansas, authorities had worried from early in the pandemic about the effect of closing courtrooms. They decided to do something about it. Violence had surged in the spring and early summer of 2020, as it had in so many other cities. Wichita police saw a sharp rise in drive-by shootings. And officials noticed something else, said then-police chief Gordon Ramsay: Many suspects arrested in the shootings were defiant, suggesting that nothing would come of the charges against them because the pandemic had shut down most of the court system. Defendants were, as a result, disinclined to take a plea deal. Why plead guilty to avoid a trial when there were no trials happening anyway? Ramsay contacted the Sedgwick County district attorney and others about the need to get the system back on track as soon as possible. He found allies in the county’s chief judge, Jeffrey Goering, and in Kevin O’Connor, the presiding judge of the court’s criminal department.
Source: Route Fifty
Two men were taken into custody on Tuesday following a break-in at a salvage yard in Jackson County. … The Kansas Highway Patrol, Kickapoo Police Department, Holton Police Department, Brown County Sheriff’s Office and the Nemaha County Sheriff’s Office joined the deputies on the scene with the search for the two men. Both a drone and a K9 unit were used during the search. The drone was able to locate one man just east of the salvage yard lying down in a field. Shortly after, the second man was found by the drone in a soybean field east of the property and east of U.S. Highway 75.
Source: KSNT 27 News
Johnson County’s Contain the Rain Program invites you to attend a workshop on stormwater containment, hosted by Bridging the Gap and Johnson County Community College Center for Sustainability. Learn the tools and solutions to help capture stormwater and mitigate runoff. Hear about the benefits of stormwater capture and its impact on the community. Reimbursement opportunities provided by cities of Johnson County are available to residents for implementing stormwater solutions.
Source: Johnson County Kansas
More than 70 local households have been approved for housing vouchers but can’t find a rental unit that matches their needs. To help alleviate that shortfall, the Lawrence-Douglas County Housing Authority will host a symposium July 28 to educate landlords and property owners about the incentives and support available for those who partner with the agency. Slated to become an annual event, the inaugural landlord symposium also has been designed to recruit and retain participants, said Mariel Ferreiro, landlord liaison manager for LDCHA. It’s part of a targeted effort led by Ferreiro and Gabi Sprague to increase landlord engagement with the housing authority and agencies within the Housing Stabilization Collaborative.
Source: The Lawrence Times
On Thursday, July 19, Sedgwick County Animal Control (SCAC) became aware of a potential hoarding situation in Mulvane. Since then, they have taken around 100 cats, an unknown number of dogs, and a pig, from the property. According to Sedgwick County, “They were living in unsanitary conditions that posed a clear and demonstrative threat to their health.” All animals are being seen, evaluated and treated by veterinary partners for a variety of illnesses related to living in what Sedgwick County is calling “squalid conditions.”
Source: KSN-TV
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