Kansas law appears to be similar. According to the Kansas Department of Revenue website FAQs:
If I get a DUI, can I still work at a retail liquor store, drinking establishment or club?
Yes, as long as it is not a felony DUI conviction. However, individuals employed as servers, bartenders or managers at on-premise licenses (such as clubs or drinking establishments) cannot have three or more convictions for alcohol related offenses (including DUIs) or two or more convictions of a “furnishing to a minor” offense within the last five years.
Regarding the requirements for obtaining a liquor license, from the same link:
Will a felony conviction prevent me from obtaining a liquor license or being employed by a liquor licensee?
Yes, owners or employees who serve, mix or dispense alcohol cannot have a felony conviction of any type.
We know that Newell has a DUI on her record, but it’s unclear if it’s a felony DUI. My decidedly uneducated guess would be that’s it’s not a felony.
I looked through the application on the state website for a liquor license. I found nothing which asked about a DUI and/or a felony conviction. I also found nothing about background searches.
Not at all. Reportedly this poor lady was still working a day a week at the paper. She was heart broken by the raid and all it portended. It’s disgusting.
Whoops, this comment meant for @Thelmalou Though though, it seems thorny agrees.
A video of the raid on this old woman’s house has been released.
“[Does] your mother love you?” she asked one officer. “Do you love your mother? You’re an asshole, police chief. You’re the chief? Oh, God, get out of my house.”
The Marion Record website has a lot of information about the police chief involved in the raid. He was a “morale killer”, allegedly once ran over a dead boy at a crime scene, and in general seems like a great guy /s. I hope they can get their paper back up and running properly.
I do agree with some of her points. The police chief was not alone in his actions; there was a whole chain that caused the raid. And she shouldn’t be blamed for that old woman’s passing.
What do you see as blameworthy in the paper? They got a tip, they investigated it, using a publicly accessible database, they decided there was no story, and they didn’t run it.
I was referring to earlier, aggressive reporting by the newspaper in other stories, which weren’t mentioned in this article. Not that there’s anything inherently ‘blameful’ about that, but I believe that it helped lead to the animosity towards the paper from both the police chief and the restaurant owner. Just my opinion, to be sure.
In a word, the restaurant owner, Kari Newell, believes that she is being unfairly castigated as the villain in this case. She continues to believe that her driving information was illegally viewed by the newspaper. And she does not think that she was responsible for the raid on the paper’s offices.
Can we really be sure it wasn’t, given what we know about this police force? I mean, sure the officer says “dead body” and you hear “dead boy,” but I see no reason to take the officer’s own assertion at face value.
People who are behaving improperly often develop “animosity” to anyone who points it out. What kind of a world do you expect to have if nobody’s supposed to point out improper behavior, especially on the part of public officials?
What sort of “aggressive reporting” do you think they should be blamed for? Did they report things that weren’t true, and that reasonable investigation should have told them weren’t true? Did they break into genuinely private records or private quarters? (It appears to have been the police chief who broke into private quarters.)
I agree that Newell probably didn’t intend to kill anybody. But the determined denial that a public record is in fact a public record doesn’t speak well at all. DUI’s around here are published in the newspaper to start with; as are all convictions; as they should be. Wasn’t the info in the paper’s own archives? – I suppose that whether her license had ever been reinstated probably wouldn’t be; but the later convictions for driving unlicensed etc. probably would.
I’m not blaming them for any aggressive reporting, and, again, I apologize for my choice of words. I’ll repeat, however, that their earlier reporting on the police chief certainly was a factor in the decision made by the chief in seeking to obtain the search warrant.
The publisher himself says that they are controversial, as evidenced by this NPR interview. Again, I have no issues with that style of reporting. But it certainly was part of the backstory that led to the raid.
AIUI, the Newell’s DUI was in another jurisdiction and happened before she moved to Marion.
