From the Wichita Eagle: Wichita lawmaker wants to restore local oversight on campaign signs

During the 2016 campaign, Haysville city government ripped up 70 campaign signs that Jennifer Winn put up thinking she was protected by state law.Reversing course from two years ago, Rep. John Carmichael is proposing to repeal a law that stripped cities and counties of authority to regulate the placement of political signs.

Carmichael, D-Wichita, voted in favor of the law as part of House Bill 2183: http://kslegislature.org/li_2016/b2015_16/measures/hb2183/, a catch-all political campaign bill that passed late in the 2015 legislative session.

On Friday, he said he didn’t expect it to result in the “forests of signs along the major thoroughfares of Wichita” that sprouted during the 2016 elections.

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