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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) Government entities cannot charge for time attorneys spend redacting documents requested under the Sunshine Law, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday.
In a 6-0 decision, the high court found that Missouri’s Sunshine Law allows government entities to charge public records requesters for research and staff time, but that attorney review time doesn’t qualify as either.
“Attorney review time has no relation to providing ‘access to public records maintained on computer facilities, recording tapes or disks, videotapes or films, pictures, maps, slides, graphics, illustrations or similar audio or visual items’ or making ‘paper copies larger than nine by fourteen inches,’” Judge Patricia Breckenridge wrote in the 27-page opinion.
State Supreme Court sends Sunshine Law case back to Cole County
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Missouri Supreme Court sends Sunshine Law case back to Cole County
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