Officials have confirmed that Katie Allen is no longer employed with the Kansas Department of Education following her comments on the death of political activist Charlie Kirk.

Allen had worked for the KSDE as a research analyst. KSDE’s director of communications did not give a reason for Allen’s separation and told The Mercury on Monday there would be no further comment.

Allen faced backlash after commenting on a Facebook post about the assassination of Kirk on Wednesday “Well-deserved.” Allen deleted the post and apologized Thursday. She also said in an updated post that she was receiving threats from people through private messages on Facebook.

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USD 383 board member Katie Allen on Thursday apologized after replying to a post about the Charlie Kirk death “Well deserved.”

Allen was replying to a repost on Facebook by Courtney Jane Hochman, a school board candidate. The original post, from People magazine, reported the death of the influential right-wing speaker and author Kirk, who was killed Wednesday during an event at a Utah college. The post included a quote from Kirk, who once said, “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

Allen, who works for the Kansas Department of Education, was elected to the Manhattan-Ogden school board in 2023.

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