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Edgar Springs, a town of 200 in southern Phelps County, must now pay Rebecca Varney $750, plus almost $80,000 in attorney fees, to satisfy a November court decision that found it violated Varney’s First Amendment rights and the Missouri Sunshine Law.
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The case, brought by Missouri State Rep. Justin Hicks, R-Lake St. Louis, is sealed from public view. Hicks filed to run for Missouri's third congressional district this week.
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In a 2-1 decision, the Western District Court of Appeals ordered the dismissal of a case challenging rules written in 2019 to limit legislative records subject to the Sunshine Law.
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After clearing a backlog of public records requests by his predecessor, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey told lawmakers his office expects to finalize all sunshine requests submitted in the last year by May.
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A Missouri law passed in 2022 deletes the names of victims and witnesses in court documents, which experts say has made Missouri courts the least transparent in the nation.
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The Illinois Supreme Court unanimously ruled the state's strongest-in-the-nation biometric privacy law does, in fact, exempt health care workers' biometric information collected for treatment of patients.
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The attorney general’s office says it has five staffers working on the Sunshine Law backlog and a policy of not charging fees for processing requests. But the first come, first serve strategy has meant hundreds of requests wait in limbo for months — even years.
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A county judge has given attorneys 30 days to file final briefs after the trial which alleges Sunshine Law and civil rights violations in Edgar Springs — about 20 miles south of Rolla.
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The Missouri Attorney General's slow response times have renewed scrutiny over how the office handles enforcing state transparency laws.
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In May, Hawley’s campaign sued in federal court, arguing the FEC was withholding documents in violation of federal transparency law.