There’s a huge backlog of Sunshine Law requests waiting for responses from the Missouri Attorney General’s office. The Missouri Independent reports that there are 374 pending records requests, 150 of them filed after Andrew Bailey took office in January. The rest were...
The state Attorney General’s Office is taking the Missouri School Boards’ Association to court, accusing the nonprofit of withholding open records. The Office says MSBA is a quasi-public governmental body because it performs a public function and the nonprofit’s...
The Missouri Supreme Court will decide whether public governmental bodies can charge fees for searching for and researching public records. It’s the key question in a major case that was heard Wednesday morning by the Supreme Court. The court heard remote oral...