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Originally published on April 12, 2021 3:00 pm
Missouri has been ordered to cough up nearly $138,000 in legal fees and expenses after a judge ruled last year that it “knowingly and purposefully” violated the state Sunshine Law.
The Missouri Court of Appeals upheld a Cole County judge’s finding that the state ran afoul of the law when the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services sought to charge a genealogy research group nearly $1.5 million for state birth and death records.
Reclaim the Records, a California-based nonprofit whose mission is to make public records available online for genealogical and historical researchers, made the request in early 2016, seeking Missouri birth and death indexes since 1910. After more than four months, the Department of Health and Senior Services responded, saying it would cost more than $1.49 million to retrieve the records from its database.
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Missouri on hook for legal fees for violating Sunshine Law
April 13, 2021 GMT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri is on the hook for nearly $138,000 in legal fees and expenses after an appeals court upheld a ruling that the state “knowingly and purposefully” violated the open records law.
The Missouri Court of Appeals agreed with a judge’s finding that the state ran afoul of the Sunshine Law when the Missouri Department of Health and Human Services sought to charge a genealogy research group nearly $1.5 million for state birth and death records dating to 1910, KCUR-FM reported.
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The dispute stems from open records request in early 2016 by Reclaim the Records, a California-based nonprofit whose mission is to make public records available online for genealogical and historical researchers. Reclaim the Records and its founder, Brooke Schreier Ganz, sued, claiming that even a revised $5,174 fee for the records was excessive.
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Missouri owes $138K in legal fees for violating Sunshine Law
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In this March 9, 2015 photo, Charlie Rodgers, government records specialist at the History Center in St. Paul, Minn., poses at the file cabinet which holds retention records. MinnesotaÂs main records retention law hasnÂt had a major update in more than three decades and last received a touch-up in 2007.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. â Missouri is on the hook for nearly $138,000 in legal fees and expenses after an appeals court upheld a ruling that the state knowingly and purposefully violated the open records law.
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