One of the most secretive, dark states: What is Kansas trying to hide?

[applegrove]

http://amp.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article184179651.html

BY LAURA BAUER, JUDY L. THOMAS AND MAX LONDBERG
The Kansas City Star

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▪ Children known to the state’s Department for Children and Families suffer horrific abuse, while the agency cloaks its involvement with their cases, even shredding notes after meetings where children’s deaths are discussed, according to a former high-ranking DCF official. One grieving father told The Star he was pressured to sign a “gag order” days after his son was killed that would prevent him from discussing DCF’s role in the case. Even lawmakers trying to fix the troubled system say they cannot trust information coming from agency officials.

▪ In the past decade, more than 90 percent of the laws passed by the Kansas Legislature have come from anonymous authors. Kansans often had no way of knowing who was pushing which legislation and why, and the topics have included abortion, concealed weapons and school funding. Kansas is one of only a few states that allow the practice.

▪ When Kansas police shoot and kill someone, law enforcement agencies often escape scrutiny because they are allowed to provide scant details to the public. The release of body-cam video has become common practice around the country after several high-profile, police-involved shootings. But in Kansas, a new state law is one of the most restrictive in the nation, allowing agencies to shelve footage that could shed more light on controversial cases.

▪ Kansas became the first state to fully privatize Medicaid services in 2013, and now some caregivers for people with disabilities say they have been asked to sign off on blank treatment plans — without knowing what’s being provided. In some of those cases, caregivers later discovered their services had been dramatically cut.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Koch paradise. If people allow this to happen to them, maybe they deserve it.

But their kids dont.

[USALiberal]

5. Great fucking logic.....

Same for the USA people since Trump won?

[Eliot Rosewater]

6. Yes, I spent some time with people from Mexico here in USA and in Mexico with

the locals.

They believe YOU and me are on their side, but they agree with me that if WE dont fix it, it is OUR fault.

and it is

Extend that to this and at some point we ALL deserve this shit if we dont fucking DO SOMETHING about it.

For instance, you RACE to the polls and you vote for ANY democrat, for starters

[2naSalit]

2. Because the

kochtopus owns the legislature and ALEC is the policy writing arms of the kocktopus. They are all about feudalism for us.

[world wide wally]

3. Of the governor, by the governor and for the governor?

[Irish_Dem]

4. Truly third world status. nt

[MiniMe]

7. Brownbackistan