The Supreme Court’s decision not to consider topless bans leaves a ruling in place that technically allows Kansas women to go topless. But a local political science professor said the legality of it is complicated.

On Monday the United States Supreme Court decided not to review a challenge to a New Hampshire ordinance banning women to be topless.

In 2016 three women were arrested for doing yoga topless on a New Hampshire beach. When they appealed their convictions the New Hampshire Supreme Court rejected the challenge, meaning tops on for women.

In 2019 the same issue went to court in Colorado, but a federal appeals court shot down the topless ban. Kansas is part of that appeal court’s jurisdiction.

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Shawnee County Solid Waste is finding a better way to recycle the thousands of used tires it collects throughout the year.

Currently, the Solid Waste department doesn’t have a dedicated recycling system to manage all of the tires it gets.

But now, it will have a separate processor to recycle tires more easily.

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The Topeka Police Department is unveiling a new community relations initiative.

TPD is partnering with Strategic Leadership Academy, a community leadership program, to create a “steering committee” in Topeka.

The steering committee will be made up of law enforcement officials, city leaders and a variety of everyday Topekans. Police Chief Bill Cochran says he wants this to be a place for tough conversations.

“People don’t like to have tough conversations,” Cochran said. “They don’t like where they end up going a lot of times. If we have something like this in place, when it’s time to sit down and have those tough conversations, the hopes are that we will be able to get to a positive result.”

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