The man Police say was discovered by a local couple passed out and naked in a Garnett church, is free from the Anderson County Jail on a personal recognizance bond after Garnett’s City Court revised his bond last week. Thirty-seven year-old Dustin Smith had been held in the county jail on a $300 bond for nearly a week after he was found unclothed and apparently under the influence when a local couple showed up at Holy Angels Catholic Church August 27th on an errand.
He was arrested on a charge of disorderly conduct, and failed to make the amount of the bond issued from city court. The incident raised the topic of a general lack of state law in Kansas dealing with public nudity, and the patchwork ordinances in various cities in regard to going naked is not in violation of a defined sex crime. Garnett Police Chief Kurt King said he had asked City Attorney Terry Solander to consider a city ordinance for submission to City Commissioners.
