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April 14, 2021Kansas City, MO |  By: AP

Missouri on hook for legal fees for violating Sunshine Law

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 violated the open records 

law. KCUR-FM reports the Missouri Court of Appeals has determined 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. 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.