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Feb. 23, 2022Topeka, Kan. |  By: AP

Lawmakers don't want Kansas to stop electing county sheriffs

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Many Kansas legislators want to make sure that counties don't change the longstanding tradition of electing sheriffs by enshrining the policy in the state constitution.

The Republican-controlled state House gave first-round approval Tuesday to a proposal to add language to the Kansas Constitution's short article on county government to ensure that sheriffs are elected to four-year terms.

A final vote was expected Wednesday. Only Riley County out of the state's 105 counties doesn't elect a sheriff.

However, a commission in the state's most populous county of Johnson County reviewed a proposal to make the sheriff there appointed before deciding against any major changes in county government.