Legal Opinion
Attorney General Opinion No.
Kansas Attorney General Reports
Decided November 30, 2007Published
1Opinion of the Court
Jerome A. Gorman, District Attorney Twenty-Ninth Judicial District Wyandotte County Criminal Justice Complex 710 North 7th Street, Suite 10 Kansas City, Kansas 66101-3051
Dear Mr. Gorman:
We are responding to your request for our legal advice on questions concerning the acceptance of prisoners by the Wyandotte county sheriff and jail. You provide us with five specific fact scenarios and ask about the duties of a county sheriff in each situation.1 All of the five scenarios focus upon responsibility between the arresting law enforcement agency (city officers) and a county sheriff or jail in…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Wesley Medical Center v. City of WichitaSupreme Court of Kansas · 1985
- Lyon-Coffey Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. State Corp. CommissionCourt of Appeals of Kansas · 2001