The Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission adjourned without a decision in the civil fine hearing against Kris Van Meteren in January. When the public hearing was re-opened, Chairwoman Sabrina Standifer opened the deliberations of the complaint in a secret Executive Session. After the secret deliberations, the Commission issued their findings of fact and conclusions of law in this case. (1) Kris Van Meteren’s motion to dismiss is denied. (2) The Ethics Commission finds that Van Meteren did intentionally violate Kansas statutes through his disclosures to Phil Lacerte of Kansas Liberty and Tim Carpenter of the Topeka Capital Journal about information contained in Van Meteren’s complaint to the Ethics Commission. However, there are at least two cases that have been published by the Meadowlark, for which there is no known investigation of the likely violation by the Ethics Commission. There is likely no way to find out what happened in other cases because of the secrecy maintained by the Commission.
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