An $84,000 mistake and a few other issues have resulted in a lower grade for southeastern Missouri’s Iron County, according to a state audit released Tuesday. State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, R-Missouri, downgraded Iron County from “good” to “fair” from a previous...
A state audit reveals how a couple mismanaged a Missouri Bootheel government department for years. The city of Malden asked former State Auditor Nicole Galloway to investigate the Dunklin County Sewer District. The investigation continued into the tenure of current...
A program designed to help Missouri inmates to gain job skills to use after they’re released is not working as intended, according to State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick. He told Missourinet that the Department of Corrections has instead primarily chosen inmates with...
An audit of the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s office is moving forward again. State Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick, R-Missouri, along with a team of auditors, visited the Carnahan Courthouse in St. Louis Monday to investigate its actions under former Democratic Circuit...
The Missouri State Auditor has released an audit of the State Public Defender System that raises questions about how caseloads are calculated. The heads of the associations for the state’s prosecutors and public defenders debate what that means for the idea...
