Kansas Attorney General Schmidt accuses KU, KSU of violating new vaccine exemption law

TOPEKA -- Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has 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.

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 and a candidate for governor in 2022, 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 have been sent by the attorney general, an official said.

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