TOPEKA — The attorney general notified Kansas State University and the University of Kansas that both were in violation of a new state law broadening access to religious or medical exemptions to federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
Attorney General Derek Schmidt forwarded a letter, obtained by the Kansas Reflector, to KU chancellor Doug Girod, KSU president Richard Myers and Kansas Board of Regents president Blake Flanders asserting both universities deployed “intrusive written application materials when evaluating an employee’s request for exemption.”
Methods at KU and KSU violate a law adopted Nov. 22 during a special session of the GOP-led Kansas Legislature and signed the next day by Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, Schmidt said.
Schmidt, a Republican, previously warned that he would issue cease-and-desist notices, but hadn’t identified targets of that effort. No other individual letters regarding the state law on vaccination mandates has been set out by the attorney general, an official said.
“I request that the Board of Regents promptly review whether any further changes in policy or practice are needed to bring KU, K-State or any other regents institution into compliance with state law or with common sense timelines,” Schmidt said.
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