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Hobson's Choice: Ensuring Open Government Or Conserving Government Funds, A, Michele L. Mekel
Hobson's Choice: Ensuring Open Government Or Conserving Government Funds, A, Michele L. Mekel
Missouri Law Review
In Hemeyer v. KRCG-TV, a case that arose when the Cole County Sheriff filed suit seeking a judicial determination supporting closure of a videotape of a legislator’s booking on drunk driving charges, the Missouri Supreme Court reiterated the public policy statement of openness that is part of the state’s Sunshine Law. To give broad effect to the policy of openness, as prescribed in the Sunshine Law, the court interpreted a component of the Sunshine Law’s remedial provision, Missouri Revised Statutes Section 610.027.5 (“Subsection 5”), liberally against the Cole county Sheriff. As a result of its liberal construction of Subsection 5, …