City repeals ordinance banning domestic battery

[The Straight Story]

City repeals ordinance banning domestic battery

Topeka’s governing body voted 7-3 Tuesday evening to repeal the city ordinance banning domestic battery, in a move interim city manager Dan Stanley said would force District Attorney Chad Taylor to resume reviewing and evaluating domestic batteries committed in Topeka for possible prosecution.

Mayor Bill Bunten and council members Karen Hiller, John Alcala, Sylvia Ortiz, Chad Manspeaker, Bob Archer and Andrew Gray voted in favor of the move while council members Denise Everhart, Larry Wolgast and Richard Harmon voted against it.

The vote came shortly before 7:30 p.m., after Stanley recommended to the governing body that it seek to remove confusion regarding the prosecution of domestic batteries committed in Topeka by making it clear that only the district attorney's office could prosecute those.

He said the repeal would "remove all ambiguity from this question" while enabling the city to negotiate from a position of strength with the county commission and district attorney's office to work out an arrangement that ensure misdemeanor domestic batteries committed in Topeka are prosecuted in district court.

http://cjonline.com/news/2011-10-11/city-repeals-ordinance-banning-domestic-battery#.TpThw7JRpBk

[Scuba]

1. So they're allowing domestic battery? Or just kicking it to another level of gov't.?

[Tsiyu]

2. I'm confused as well

Are they throwing domestic violence victims under the bus to save their pensions?