The City of Lawrence will soon be requiring its unvaccinated employees to be tested regularly for COVID-19, and Douglas County could soon adopt a similar policy for its employees. Between the two local governments, such policies would cover more than 1,600 workers. While these kinds of policies don’t go as far as the vaccine requirements that President Joe Biden recently announced for federal workers, officials with both local governments said their positions were influenced by the high voluntary vaccination rates among their workforce. City Manager Craig Owens said the city has already verified that 77% of its employees are vaccinated, and that employees continue to turn in vaccination cards and make the decision to get a COVID-19 vaccine.
Source: LJWorld.com.

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Syllabus by the Court…
2. Under K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 22-4612(a), the obligation of one of the statutorily specified governmental entities, such as the city law enforcement agency, to pay for the medical expenses of an indigent criminal offender is initially triggered by the entity having custody of the indigent offender at the time the decision is made to obtain medical treatment for the offender.
3. A person is in custody when under arrest, although arrest might not always be necessary to establish custody.
4. Applying K.S.A. 2020 Supp. 22-4612 to the stipulated facts, no law enforcement agency had custody over the patient at the time the decision was made to obtain medical treatment for the patient.
Source: KS Supreme Court