Anna Kaminsky

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · The potential effect of Kansas' participation in a federal school voucher program · 20 Apr 2026 podcast

Any others you think are important to mention?

Hm, yeah, and and we'll certainly see how all that plays out in the coming school years.

Leah Fleiter with the Kansas Association of School Boards, thank you very much for sitting down with me today.

Thank you for listening to the Kansas Reflector Podcast.

The team at Kansas Reflector has been doing a lot of cool stuff lately, including a week long series exploring the legislature's procedural games this session.

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Kansas Reflector Podcast · Kansas Reflector staff recap 2026 legislative session · 6 Apr 2026 podcast

Hello.

Yeah, the legislature essentially took over the Kansas Prisoner Review Board, which is the state's parole board, and it was all because of one case.

This is not an isolated incident.

You know, a similar thing happened with the Nursing Review Board this session, where there were a couple cases or singular cases that the legislature didn't like, and they proposed a complete overhaul of that board, too.

In this case of the Prison Review Board, it has three members currently.

And last summer, they approved parole for a man named Jimmy Nelms, who was convicted of murdering a Kansas Highway Patrolman back in the 70s.

So he had been passed up for parole several times after serving almost 50 years of his two life sentences when the board had approved his release back in May 2025.

Once law enforcement groups got wind of that, the outrage was quick to follow, and officials, including in the law enforcement field and in the political arena, came out against the board's decision.

So the board eventually, without explanation, overturned its decision, and a couple months later, we have this piece of legislation, Senate Bill 459, which was requested by the State Troopers Association, that forces out the three current board members, effective July,

and then creates a process for adding five new members subject to four-year terms, along with a number of other hearing, public comment, and administrative requirements.

So under this legislation, which did pass both chambers and is waiting the final say-so from the governor, the governor would point three members to the board, one that has five years of experience or more of serving victims of crime, and then one that has at least five years of law enforcement experience.

The Attorney General would appoint the other two members, one of which must have at least five years' experience as a prosecutor.

So these are huge changes.

The three current board members are employees of the Kansas Department of Corrections.

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