A Seward County commissioner went around the Board, the County Administrator and Human Resources — from a private email account — and a 37-year county employee’s retirement was cut by more than a quarter, and reinstated only when the truth came out.
Commissioner Stanton used confidential county retirement records to interfere with a longtime employee’s earned benefits — a violation of Kansas law governing information acquired through public office.
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Count me in →Without Board, County Administrator, or HR authorization, Stanton obtained confidential KP&F member data and contacted KPERS directly to challenge an employee’s retirement eligibility — asking that his own identity be withheld from the County in the process.
On July 8, 2025 he told KPERS to copy the determination letter openly to Seward County HR and to send his own copy by blind copy — and he had already told them the County Administrator was deliberately not being informed.
In July 2025 he asked Sheriff Gene Ward to file criminal charges against County Administrator April Warden. The Sheriff declined, and KPERS’s own attorney confirmed no crime had occurred.
Commissioner Todd Stanton committed misconduct in office regarding the retirement benefits of Seward County employee Greg Standard, in violation of K.S.A. 21-6002(a)(3) (using confidential information acquired through public office to intentionally cause harm to another). The Board of County Commissioners never authorized Stanton to act on the County’s behalf regarding Standard’s KPERS or KP&F retirement, nor did the County Administrator or Human Resources, and Stanton was not a designated agent on the County’s KPERS account. Despite this, Stanton obtained a list identifying County employees enrolled under KP&F — confidential member data protected under K.S.A. 74-4909(10) — then used that data to contact the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) directly, asking KPERS to withhold his identity from the County while challenging Standard’s KP&F eligibility. As a result, KPERS reduced Standard’s first retirement payment pending review. After reviewing Standard’s job duties and service history — including his roles as Assistant Fire Chief, Advanced EMT, Hazmat Technician, and Storm Tracking Team lead — KPERS determined his benefits were properly earned and fully funded. His unauthorized use of confidential data caused needless harm to a 37-year county employee’s earned retirement livelihood and required significant staff time and resources to correct.
Englewood was being evacuated and homes were burning to the ground. One commissioner was out fighting it on a tractor. Another spent days making sure the crews had water. Rural Fire is Todd Stanton’s own assignment, and that is his fire chief on the other end of the line. Thirty-six seconds. Press play.
Homes were burning to the ground. That is Todd Stanton laughing about keeping the county’s own administration in the dark. What is the joke?
What was good about anything the Fire Chief was doing on that phone? He said it twice.
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