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This Activist Is Prying Loose Missouri Drug Task Force Records One Lawsuit at a Time

Loaded on Dec. 19, 2017 by C.J. Ciaramella

Filed under: Prison Reform, Public Records.

by C.J. Ciaramella

Last month, a Missouri state circuit judge did something nearly unheard of: She punished a public official for flouting transparency laws.

State Circuit Judge Patricia Joyce ruled that Cole County prosecutor Mark Richardson “knowingly and purposefully” violated the state’s open records law when the …

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