Kudos to Missouri’s AG for doing the right thing! Attorney General Chris Koster released the Rams’ proposal for upgrading the Edward Jones Dome in compliance with Sunshine Law requests to the state of Missouri. Koster had announced May 7 that the state would release the documents today unless a judge said the records should remain [...]
Filed under: 3. Access law, 6. Overcoming denials | Tagged: attorney general, dome, Missouri, plans, St. Louis | Leave a Comment »
Victory! Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster on Monday said he intends to publicly release documents next week related to the St. Louis Rams’ plans to renovate the Edward Jones Dome. The secret plans have been at the center of a legal dispute between the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission and the Post-Dispatch. The CVC [...]
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A frequent tactic in the FOI game is the eye-popping fee for redaction and records preparation. I’d like to say this is an unusual price tag, but I’ve run across several similar stories in the past few months: A group of taxpayers in the Rockwood School District has been told it must pay $18,005 for [...]
Filed under: 5. Request strategies, 6. Overcoming denials, 7. Electronic records | Tagged: e-mail, fees, Missouri, St. Louis | 1 Comment »
The American Civil Liberties Union has filed suit against the city of St. Louis, asking a judge to make the city turn over jail records related to inmate grievances. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the suit file Wednesday accuses the city’s corrections division of ignoring repeated requests over the past four months for records under the Missouri Sunshine [...]
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A Patch columnist spins a tale sure to make the hair stand up on the back of your neck: I filed a complaint with the Attorney General’s Office about Chesterfield refusing to release a 2011 arrest report, incident and accident reports of ex-sports announcer Dan McLaughlin, as required by state law. McLaughlin was arrested DWI [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 2. Doc state of mind | Tagged: DUI, FOI hellraising, Missouri, Sunshine Law | Leave a Comment »
From my friends at Patch…. The City of Brentwood sued the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Aug. 19 seeking a declaratory judgment from St. Louis County Judge David Vincent concerning a document requested by the newspaper. According to the petition for declaratory judgment, the document is a copy of a Letter of Understanding regarding the repayment of overtime between Brentwood and Local 2665 [...]
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The Post-Dispatch has been a consistent voice on the need for reform in Missouri: Missouri’s law, however, is too weak to put fear in the minds of those public officials afraid to do their business in the light of day, whether it be shouting from the rooftops or whispering in quiet city council chambers. Brentwood [...]
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Right here in chilly, grey Missouri, we have a nice little FOI flap brewing. It seems that the state’s former treasurer can’t find pretty much any of the records worth looking at for, well…the entire four years she was in office! Here is Politico: Sarah Steelman’s political opponents aren’t finding much daylight in their Sunshine [...]
Filed under: 1. Records that matter, 3. Access law, 4. Finding records | Tagged: Claire McCaskill, Missouri, Sarah Steelman | Leave a Comment »
A new report shows sheriff’s departments in Missouri are not always following the law when it comes to open records, according to a new study by the Missouri Sunshine Coalition. The Missouri Press Association sent Sunshine-Law requests to all 114 sheriffs in the Show-Me State. And while most complied with the law, several did not. [...]
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