LIBERTY, Mo. — Kansas county officials have had various reactions to Gov. Laura Kelly’s decision to give them the authority to determine their own coronavirus restrictions.
The state’s most populous county, Johnson County, said restrictions limiting how businesses operate and the size of gatherings will now be only guidelines. But Wyandotte, Douglas and Lyon counties chose to keep the restrictions in place for now. Officials in some other counties were planning to meet on Wednesday to discuss a way forward.
Kelly on Tuesday changed her previous mandate for a phased reopening of the state’s economy to only recommendations for the state’s 105 counties.
