At least three sheriffs’ departments in the Kansas City metro area have either updated policies or are considering changes ...

Election Day is Tuesday, April 8 for the Kansas City school and special election and other Missouri elections. Polling locations can be found on the Kansas City Election Board website, or in a ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Following a KSHB 41 ... she’s hoping Kansas City will renew a tax for a new jail. There is no jail in Kansas City, only the Jackson County Detention Center.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Opposers to a new municipal jail rallied on Sunday in support of a no vote on Question 1 in Tuesday’s election. “Unless we are looking at the actual root problem of these ...

County Executive Frank White vetoed the Jackson County budget in January, then four county legislators sued him. Three months ...

A Kansas City man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in a 2021 shooting that ...

The current plan for a 250-bed jail located on city land near the new Jackson County Detention ... about the inmates. With the help of many nonprofit organizations in the Kansas City community ...

Kansas City hasn’t overseen its own jail in about a decade, and currently sends municipal inmates at least an hour away to Vernon County or Johnson County jails in Missouri. But supporters of a ...

Kansas City, Missouri, voters approve renewal of public safety sales tax The new jail would be next to the Jackson County Adult Detention Center, which is being built just off Interstate 70 and U ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo ... site for the new Jackson County Detention Center on 40 Highway. A portion from the quarter cent public safety sales tax would go towards the new jail if voters decide ...