Clap during a city meeting in Emporia and you too might be hustled off to jail. Just ask Lux.

By: Max McCoy

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: August 9, 2026

Words: 2,500

Last Updated: 1 week, 2 days ago

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Lux Claridge isn’t who you’d expect to be busted for disorderly conduct. The 37-year-old high school physics teacher is soft spoken and has quick green eyes beneath a mop of brown hair. Wearing a yellow tee promoting a bicycle festival in northwest Arkansas, a pair of pale blue shorts, and with one blue sock and one orange sock stuffed into the tops of new generation Chuck Taylors, they exude a kind of natural calm.

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