ACLU et al. sue Missouri Department of Corrections
ST. LOUIS – Today the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press and Chris McDaniel, a St. Louis Public Radio reporter, filed a lawsuit against the...
View ArticleInternational Human Rights Body Tells U.S. to Stop Winfield Execution
On Friday evening, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights sent precautionary measures to the federal government and the Missouri government, asking that the June 18 execution of John Winfield be...
View ArticleJudge Rules Public has an Interest in How Police Investigate Themselves
St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Robert Dierker released his decision late on June 11, 2014, ruling that the St. Louis City Police must release documents requested by John Chasnoff pertaining to internal...
View ArticleDepartment of Corrections to Release Unredacted Documents to the ACLU
This week a judge in Missouri became the first to rule that a government entity that cites one reason for not producing Sunshine Law requested documents cannot come back and cite other exemptions when...
View ArticleACLU Files Sunshine Law Suit to Obtain FBI Audit
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU of Missouri) filed a Sunshine Law suit July 16 against St. Louis County because the County will not release an FBI audit regarding the embezzlement...
View ArticleACLU and Civil Rights Groups Call for End to Ferguson Curfew
Ferguson: On the Ground By Diane Balogh, ACLU of Missouri In the wake of the Michael Brown tragedy last week, the ACLU has been working diligently to shed light on what transpired, as well as preserve...
View ArticleACLU Receives Ferguson Police Department's Incident Report on Fatal Michael...
On Aug. 12, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri asked the Ferguson Police Department to release the incident report for the Aug. 9 fatal shooting of Michael Brown. After the request was...
View ArticleACLU Files Sixth Lawsuit Against MODOC Within a Year
The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU of Missouri) filed its sixth lawsuit against the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC) seeking documents regarding the state’s execution...
View ArticleJudge Rules on ACLU's Sunshine Law Suit Regarding FBI Audit
On July 16, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU of Missouri) filed a Sunshine Law suit against St. Louis County because the County would not release an FBI audit regarding the...
View ArticleACLU Receives FBI Report in Mueth Embezzlement
On Sept. 29, the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri (ACLU of Missouri) received a copy of the FBI audit regarding the embezzlement of county funds by Edward Mueth. This report was released as a...
View ArticleACLU Sues Over Wellston’s Refusal to Respond to Request for Public Records
ST. LOUIS – The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri has filed a Sunshine Law suit against the City of Wellston because the City has failed to respond to the ACLU’s requests for documents...
View ArticleLarry Flynt Allowed to Ask for Execution Records to be Unsealed
ST. LOUIS – Today, United States Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Publisher Larry Flynt has the right to intervene in a case challenging Missouri’s execution protocol. Flynt seeks to challenge the...
View ArticleCourt Agrees Records of Police Misconduct Must be Disclosed
ST. LOUIS – Today, the Missouri Court of Appeals agreed that the public has a right to review records related to the 2006 World Series ticket-scalping scandal. The court upheld the trial court’s...
View ArticleCourt Upholds Public's Right to Know About Death Penalty Procedures
Today, the Circuit Court of Cole County agreed that the Missouri Department of Corrections broke the law by failing to honor a Sunshine Law request to disclose the name of the pharmacy that supplied...
View ArticleCourt Finds Judge Improperly Removed Grand Juror
St. Louis-- The Missouri Court of Appeals Eastern District ruled late this afternoon that a St. Louis County Judge abused his discretion by removing a foreperson from a grand jury. The Court directed...
View ArticleACLU Statement on Missouri Supreme Court Ruling in Strake v. Robinwood
Today in Strake v. Robinwood West Community Improvement District, the Missouri Supreme Court held that a government entity’s refusal to provide a citizen with public records amounts to a purposeful...
View ArticleACLU Files Sunshine Law Suit Over ACT Missouri’s Refusal to Release Public...
The ACLU of Missouri has filed a Sunshine Law suit on behalf of Aaron M. Malin against the Missouri Association of Community Task Forces (ACT Missouri) for denying a request for the release of public...
View ArticleResident Sues Cole County Prosecutor for the Release of Public Records
Over the course of seven months, Cole County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Richardson denied all three of Mr. Aaron Malin’s requests for public records on the basis that his office’s documents are “closed...
View ArticleACLU, Don't Shoot Coalition and State Legislators Announce Filing of the...
Today, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Missouri, in conjunction with the Don’t Shoot Coalition and other community partners, announced the filing of The Fair and Impartial Policing Act,...
View ArticleCourt Rules Department of Corrections Violated Sunshine Law by Withholding...
The Circuit Court of Cole County ruled that the Missouri Department of Corrections (MODOC) knowingly violated the Sunshine Law by refusing to provide information related to the state’s execution...
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