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Friday, June 01, 2012
Rick Cohen: "Kansas Nonprofits Told to Sit Down and Shut Up" @ Nonprofit Quarterly
[Excerpt] "There is important and distressing news for nonprofits coming from the
state of Kansas, where Republican Gov. Sam Brownback has been
implementing a string of policies that have been less than kind to the
nonprofit sector. The latest from the Brownback administration is
possibly the most significant and deleterious of the state’s cascading
laws and regulations adversely affecting nonprofits: the Kansas
Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services (SRS) has generated new
boilerplate language for its contracts with service providers aimed at
bolstering restrictions on state contractors using government funding
for legislative lobbying. However, the language is much broader than
that, and so vague as to put a muzzle over the free speech rights of
nonprofits that are simply trying to advocate and educate for the sake
of their constituents. ..."
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