New Kansas law limits efforts to document ICE activity. Video shows how officers utilize the law.

By: Baya Burgess

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: July 17, 2026

Words: 1,535

Last Updated: 23 hours, 28 minutes ago

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers surrounded a Lenexa woman recording video from her car as an officer shouted “25 feet, 25 feet” and ordered her to move back July 11 in Olathe.

She couldn’t move because they had trapped her.

The officer’s command referenced a Kansas law called the Halo Act. Effective July 1, it criminalized “unlawfully approaching” law enforcement officers or first responders within 25 feet under certain circumstances. The law …

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