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 »
A welcome development from St. Louis: a newspaper taking a secretive body to court. The St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission and the Post-Dispatch both filed lawsuits on Wednesday, presenting divergent arguments about records related to Dome renovations and what role public debate should have in the process. The CVC, a public agency that operates [...]
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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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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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