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2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.019 - Public defender system created — director, appointment, qualifications, compensation, removal from office, procedure.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 01 Apr 1982, see footnote
600.019. Public defender system created — director, appointment, qualifications, compensation, removal from office, procedure. —
1. The "Office of State Public Defender" is hereby created and established as an independent department of the judicial branch of state government.
2. The commission shall appoint a director of the office of state public defender as head of the office. He shall qualify and be sworn into office by a judge of the supreme court. He shall be an attorney with substantial experience in the representation of persons accused of crime. He shall have experience in administration of personnel and shall be dedicated to the goals of providing quality legal representation for eligible persons and of improving the quality of defense services generally.
3. The director shall devote full time to the duties of his office and shall not otherwise engage in the practice of law. His term of office shall be four years and until the appointment and qualification of a successor. His term may be renewable at the discretion of the commission. He may be removed by the commission during his term in office for good cause shown after notice and hearing.
4. The salary of the director shall be set by the commission but shall not exceed that of a circuit judge.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169)
Effective 4-01-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.021 - Public defenders, appointment, terms, qualifications, restrictions — compensation of defenders and employees — offices, where established — private attorneys, services authorized.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 28 Aug 1986
600.021. Public defenders, appointment, terms, qualifications, restrictions — compensation of defenders and employees — offices, where established — private attorneys, services authorized. —
1. The commission shall employ persons to be public defenders for a term of four years. A public defender shall employ such persons to be assistant public defenders, deputy public defenders, investigators, and any other employees as are necessary to discharge the function of the office, all of whom shall serve at the pleasure of the employing public defender. Circuit and regional public defenders holding office on April 1, 1982, shall continue to hold such office until the expiration of their terms under the direction of the director as otherwise described in this chapter. Public defenders may be appointed to serve additional terms by the commission.
2. Public defenders, assistant public defenders, and deputy public defenders shall be attorneys, licensed to practice law in this state, and shall not otherwise engage in the practice of law except as authorized by this chapter or by commission rule. Public defenders, assistant public defenders and deputy public defenders may be employed on a full- or part-time basis.
3. The compensation of persons appointed under this section shall be fixed by the commission.
4. The commission may establish such local or regional offices as it deems necessary to properly carry out purposes of this chapter.
5. The commission may appoint, on recommendation of the director, and fix the compensation of all other personnel necessary to the operation of the state public defender system.
6. The commission may contract with private attorneys to provide defense services in such areas of the state and on such terms as it deems appropriate.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169, A.L. 1986 S.B. 451)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.040 - Office space and utilities services, how provided — retirement system membership.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
600.040. Office space and utilities services, how provided — retirement system membership. —
1. The city or county shall provide office space and utility services, other than telephone service, for the district public defender and his or her personnel. If there is more than one county in a district, each county shall contribute, on the basis of population, its pro rata share of the costs of office space and utility services, other than telephone service. The state shall pay, within the limits of the appropriation therefor, all other expenses and costs of the state public defender system authorized under this chapter.
2. A complete budget for the state public defender system shall be provided through an annual appropriation subject to approval by the governor and the general assembly. The budget request for the state public defender system shall be approved by the commission and submitted directly to the governor and the general assembly by the director and shall not be subject to diminution or alteration by the judicial department of state government.
3. Any person who is a public defender or employee of a public defender shall be entitled to all benefits of the Missouri state employees' retirement system as defined in sections 104.310
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to 104.550.
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(L. 1972 H.B. 1314 § 7, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1169, A.L. 2013 H.B. 215)
*Section 104.310 was repealed by H.B. 1643, et al., 1988
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.043 - Involuntary civil detention or commitment cases, representation by defenders prohibited.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 01 Apr 1982, see footnote
600.043. Involuntary civil detention or commitment cases, representation by defenders prohibited. —
The state public defender system shall not represent a person who faces a loss or deprivation of liberty pursuant to section 632.415, and nothing in sections 600.011 to 600.048 and 600.086 to 600.096 shall be construed to affect the legal representative provided to any person pursuant to section 632.415.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169)
Effective 4-01-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.044 - Legal services to be furnished by defender, dismissal from case, when, procedure.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 01 Apr 1982, see footnote
600.044. Legal services to be furnished by defender, dismissal from case, when, procedure. —
A defender who undertakes to represent an eligible person shall continue to do so at every stage of the case or proceeding, including the filing of a motion for new trial and the processing, briefing, and argument of an appeal, until the defender is relieved of his duties by the director or is permitted by a court to withdraw.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169)
Effective 4-01-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.048 - Right to counsel, notice posted, where, contents — request for counsel, procedure — privacy rights.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
600.048. Right to counsel, notice posted, where, contents — request for counsel, procedure — privacy rights. —
1. It shall be the duty of every person in charge of a jail, police station, constable's or sheriff's office, or detention facility provided by any county to post in a conspicuous place a notice stating in effect:
(1) That every person held in custody under a charge or suspicion of a crime is entitled to have a lawyer;
(2) That if any such person is held in custody in connection with any of the cases or proceedings set out in section 600.042, and wants a lawyer to represent him or her and is unable, without substantial financial hardship to self or his or her dependents, to obtain a lawyer, the state will provide a lawyer to represent him or her upon request; and
(3) That if the state provides such a lawyer, the client may be liable to the state for the cost of the services and expenses of the lawyer who handles the case if he or she is or will be able to pay all or any part of such costs.
­­The notice shall also contain a listing of the cases and proceedings for which defender services are available under section 600.042, and the telephone number of a person or answering service to call to request that a person designated by the state public defender system visit and interview him or her, and provide further information.
2. A person who is charged or detained in any case listed in section 600.042 or who appears in court without counsel at any stage of a case, or any other person on behalf of such person, may request that legal representation be furnished to him or her by the state. The court or any person representing the state public defender system to whom such request is made shall first provide a copy of the notice referred to in subsection 1 of this section or call the posted notice to the charged or detained person's attention and permit him or her to read it or have it explained to him or her. If such person renews a request for state public defender system services, he or she shall be required to complete and sign an affidavit in accordance with section 600.086 and shall be orally informed of the punishment for intentionally falsifying such affidavit.
3. It shall be the duty of every person in charge of a jail, police station, constable's or sheriff's office, or detention facility to make a room or place available therein where any person held in custody under a charge or suspicion of a crime will be able to talk privately with his or her lawyer, lawyer's representative, or any authorized person responding to a request for an interview concerning his or her right to counsel.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169, A.L. 2013 H.B. 215)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.051 - Waiver of counsel, when permitted.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
Effective - 28 Aug 1976
600.051. Waiver of counsel, when permitted. —
1. Any judge of a court of competent jurisdiction may permit a waiver of counsel to be filed in any criminal case wherein a defendant may receive a jail sentence or confinement if the court first determines that defendant has made a knowledgeable and intelligent waiver of the right to assistance of counsel and the waiver is signed before and witnessed by the judge or clerk of the court, providing further that the waiver contains at least the following information which the defendant has read or which has been read to the defendant before the signing thereof:
(1) That the defendant has been charged with the offense of ______ (nature of charge must be inserted before signing);
(2) That the defendant has a right to a trial on the charge and further that the defendant has a right to a trial by a jury;
(3) That the maximum possible sentence on the charge is ______ imprisonment in jail and a fine in the amount of ______ dollars or by both imprisonment and fine. That the minimum possible sentence is ______ imprisonment in jail or by a fine in the amount of ______ dollars or by both such confinement and fine;
(4) That the defendant is aware that any recommendations by a prosecuting attorney or other prosecuting official are not binding on the judge and that any such recommendations may or may not be accepted by judge;
(5) That if defendant pleads guilty or is found guilty of the charge, the judge is most likely to impose a sentence of confinement;
(6) That, if indigent, and unable to employ an attorney, the defendant has a right to request the judge to appoint counsel to assist the defendant in his defense against the charge.
2. Such a waiver and procedure shall be required if the judge imposes an order of probation, parole or suspension of sentence whereby subsequently the defendant may be ordered confined thereunder. Whenever a judge has permitted the filing of a waiver and a plea of guilty or a finding of guilty on the charge is entered and before the imposition of a sentence of confinement (including probation, parole or suspended sentence), the judge shall determine:
(1) That if a plea of guilty has been entered, there is a factual basis for such a plea and, upon inquiry of defendant, that defendant is in fact guilty of the charge;
(2) That the defendant does not know of the existence of any witness or of any fact, circumstances or evidence which was not presented to the court, which would exonerate defendant of the charge;
(3) That upon inquiry of the prosecuting attorney there are no witnesses or evidence which would cast a reasonable doubt about the defendant's guilt or defenses available to defendant not disclosed to the court.
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(L. 1976 H.B. 1095 § 600.046)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.062 - Acceptance of cases, no authority to limit based on caseload standards.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
Effective - 02 Jul 2013, see footnote
600.062. Acceptance of cases, no authority to limit based on caseload standards. —
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 600.017 and 600.042 to the contrary, neither the director nor the commission shall have the authority to limit the availability of a district office or any division director, district defender, deputy district defender, or assistant public defender to accept cases based on a determination that the office has exceeded a caseload standard. The director, commission, any division director, district defender, deputy district defender, or assistant public defender may not refuse to provide representation required under this chapter without prior approval from a court of competent jurisdiction.
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(L. 2013 H.B. 215)
Effective 7-02-13
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.064 - Private counsel, appointment of, requirements — expenses.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 28 Aug 2013
600.064. Private counsel, appointment of, requirements — expenses. —
1. Before a circuit court judge appoints private counsel to represent an indigent defendant, the judge shall:
(1) Investigate the defendant's financial status to verify that the defendant does not have the means to obtain counsel;
(2) Provide each appointed lawyer, upon request, with an evidentiary hearing as to the propriety of the appointment, taking into consideration the lawyer's right to earn a livelihood and be free from involuntary servitude. If the judge determines after the hearing that the appointment will cause any undue hardship to the lawyer, the judge shall appoint another lawyer; and
(3) Determine whether the private counsel to be appointed possesses the necessary experience, education, and expertise in criminal defense to provide effective assistance of counsel.
2. No judge shall require a lawyer to advance personal funds in any amount for the payment of litigation expenses to prepare a proper defense for an indigent defendant.
3. If an employee of the general assembly is appointed to represent an indigent defendant during the time period beginning January first and ending June first of each year, or whenever the general assembly is in a veto session or special session or is holding out-of-session committee hearings, the judge who made the appointment shall postpone the trial and all other proceedings of any kind or nature to a date that does not fall within such time period or appoint a different lawyer who is not an employee of the general assembly to represent the defendant.
4. Private counsel appointed to represent an indigent defendant may seek payment of litigation expenses from the public defender system. Such litigation expenses shall not include counsel fees and shall be limited to those expenses approved in advance by the director as reasonably necessary for the proper defense of the defendant.
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(L. 2013 H.B. 215)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.089 - Parolees to pay for representation, when.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 28 Aug 1990
600.089. Parolees to pay for representation, when. —
If the public defender commission has obtained a judgment against an offender in the custody of the department of corrections, and the offender is later paroled and becomes financially able to pay all or some part of such judgment, he shall be required, as a condition of his continued parole, to pay over to the public defender commission such amounts as he can reasonably pay, either by a single payment or by installments of reasonable amounts, in accordance with the schedule of charges for public defender services prepared pursuant to section 600.090.
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(L. 1986 S.B. 451 § 1, A.L. 1990 H.B. 974)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.091 - Confidentiality of defender's files, exceptions.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 01 Apr 1982, see footnote
600.091. Confidentiality of defender's files, exceptions. —
The files maintained by the state public defender office which relate to the handling of any case shall be considered confidential and shall not be open to inspection by any person unless authorized by law, court order, the commission, or the director. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit access by the state auditor to those records of the state public defender system needed by the state auditor to carry out the duties of his office.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169)
Effective 4-01-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.093 - Probation, payment for services may be condition.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 01 Apr 1982, see footnote
600.093. Probation, payment for services may be condition. —
The court may require a defendant to repay all or a part of the value of the legal services rendered by the state public defender system as a condition of probation.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169)
Effective 4-01-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.096 - Reports, documents, statements, transcripts to be furnished to defender without fee.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
• Effective - 01 Apr 1982, see footnote
600.096. Reports, documents, statements, transcripts to be furnished to defender without fee. —
An office of the state, or any department, division, agency or political subdivision thereof, including a prosecutor's office and a police department, shall furnish copies, upon request, of any reports, documents, statements or transcripts prepared by the state, or any department, division, agency or political subdivision thereof concerning a person represented by the state public defender system to the defender representing such person without charge.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1169)
Effective 4-01-82
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXVIII - Crimes and Punishment; Peace Officers and Public Defenders › Chapter 600 - Public Defenders › Section 600.101 - Provision of office space for public defender, disputes.

Title XXXVIII CRIMES AND PUNISHMENT; PEACE OFFICERS AND PUBLIC DEFENDERS
Chapter 600
Effective - 28 Aug 2016, 2 histories
600.101. Provision of office space for public defender, disputes. —
Any dispute between any county or city not within a county and the state public defender regarding office space and utility service provided or to be provided pursuant to section 600.040 may be submitted to the judicial finance commission established pursuant to section 477.600.
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(L. 1999 S.B. 1, et al., A.L. 2016 S.B. 735)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.011 - Liberal construction of law to be public policy.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
610.011. Liberal construction of law to be public policy. —
1. It is the public policy of this state that meetings, records, votes, actions, and deliberations of public governmental bodies be open to the public unless otherwise provided by law. Sections 610.010 to 610.200 shall be liberally construed and their exceptions strictly construed to promote this public policy.
2. Except as otherwise provided by law, all public meetings of public governmental bodies shall be open to the public as set forth in section 610.020, all public records of public governmental bodies shall be open to the public for inspection and copying as set forth in sections 610.023 to 610.026, and all public votes of public governmental bodies shall be recorded as set forth in section 610.015.
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(L. 1987 S.B. 2, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1020, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.015 - Votes, how taken.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 11 Oct 2013, 2 histories, see footnote
*610.015. Votes, how taken. —
Except as provided in section 610.021, rules authorized pursuant to Article III of the Missouri Constitution and as otherwise provided by law, all votes shall be recorded, and if a roll call is taken, as to attribute each "yea" and "nay" vote, or abstinence if not voting, to the name of the individual member of the public governmental body. Any votes taken during a closed meeting shall be taken by roll call. All public meetings shall be open to the public and public votes and public records shall be open to the public for inspection and duplication. All votes taken by roll call in meetings of a public governmental body consisting of members who are all elected, except for the Missouri general assembly and any committee established by a public governmental body, shall be cast by members of the public governmental body who are physically present and in attendance at the meeting or who are participating via videoconferencing. When it is necessary to take votes by roll call in a meeting of the public governmental body, due to an emergency of the public body, with a quorum of the members of the public body physically present and in attendance and less than a quorum of the members of the public governmental body participating via telephone, facsimile, internet, or any other voice or electronic means, the nature of the emergency of the public body justifying that departure from the normal requirements shall be stated in the minutes. Where such emergency exists, the votes taken shall be regarded as if all members were physically present and in attendance at the meeting.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 1 § 2, A.L. 1987 S.B. 2, A.L. 1993 H.B. 170, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1095, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1020, et al., A.L. 2013 S.B. 170)
*Effective 10-11-13, see § 21.250. S.B. 170 was vetoed July 2, 2013. The veto was overridden on September 11, 2013.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.023 - Records of governmental bodies to be in care of custodian, duties — records may be copied but not removed, exception, procedure — denial of access, procedure.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
610.023. Records of governmental bodies to be in care of custodian, duties — records may be copied but not removed, exception, procedure — denial of access, procedure. —
1. Each public governmental body is to appoint a custodian who is to be responsible for the maintenance of that body's records. The identity and location of a public governmental body's custodian is to be made available upon request.
2. Each public governmental body shall make available for inspection and copying by the public of that body's public records. No person shall remove original public records from the office of a public governmental body or its custodian without written permission of the designated custodian. No public governmental body shall, after August 28, 1998, grant to any person or entity, whether by contract, license or otherwise, the exclusive right to access and disseminate any public record unless the granting of such right is necessary to facilitate coordination with, or uniformity among, industry regulators having similar authority.
3. Each request for access to a public record shall be acted upon as soon as possible, but in no event later than the end of the third business day following the date the request is received by the custodian of records of a public governmental body. If records are requested in a certain format, the public body shall provide the records in the requested format, if such format is available. If access to the public record is not granted immediately, the custodian shall give a detailed explanation of the cause for further delay and the place and earliest time and date that the record will be available for inspection. This period for document production may exceed three days for reasonable cause.
4. If a request for access is denied, the custodian shall provide, upon request, a written statement of the grounds for such denial. Such statement shall cite the specific provision of law under which access is denied and shall be furnished to the requester no later than the end of the third business day following the date that the request for the statement is received.
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(L. 1987 S.B. 2, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1095, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1020, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.024 - Public record containing exempt and nonexempt materials, nonexempt to be made available — deleted exempt materials to be explained, exception.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1993
610.024. Public record containing exempt and nonexempt materials, nonexempt to be made available — deleted exempt materials to be explained, exception. —
1. If a public record contains material which is not exempt from disclosure as well as material which is exempt from disclosure, the public governmental body shall separate the exempt and nonexempt material and make the nonexempt material available for examination and copying.
2. When designing a public record, a public governmental body shall, to the extent practicable, facilitate a separation of exempt from nonexempt information. If the separation is readily apparent to a person requesting to inspect or receive copies of the form, the public governmental body shall generally describe the material exempted unless that description would reveal the contents of the exempt information and thus defeat the purpose of the exemption.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 170)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.025 - Electronic transmission of messages relating to public business, requirements.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004, 2 histories
610.025. Electronic transmission of messages relating to public business, requirements. —
Any member of a public governmental body who transmits any message relating to public business by electronic means shall also concurrently transmit that message to either the member's public office computer or the custodian of records in the same format. The provisions of this section shall only apply to messages sent to two or more members of that body so that, when counting the sender, a majority of the body's members are copied. Any such message received by the custodian or at the member's office computer shall be a public record subject to the exceptions of section 610.021.
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(L. 2004 S.B. 1020, et al.)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.028 - Legal defense of members of governmental bodies, when — written policy on release of information required — persons reporting violations exempt from liability and discipline.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2004
610.028. Legal defense of members of governmental bodies, when — written policy on release of information required — persons reporting violations exempt from liability and discipline. —
1. Any public governmental body may provide for the legal defense of any member charged with a violation of sections 610.010 to 610.030.
2. Each public governmental body shall provide a reasonable written policy in compliance with sections 610.010 to 610.030, open to public inspection, regarding the release of information on any meeting, record or vote and any member or employee of the public governmental body who complies with the written policy is not guilty of a violation of the provisions of sections 610.010 to 610.030 or subject to civil liability for any act arising out of his adherence to the written policy of the agency.
3. No person who in good faith reports a violation of the provisions of sections 610.010 to 610.030 is civilly liable for making such report, nor, if such person is an officer or employee of a public governmental body, may such person be demoted, fired, suspended, or otherwise disciplined for making such report.
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(L. 1982 H.B. 1253, A.L. 1987 S.B. 2, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1548)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.029 - Governmental agencies to provide information by electronic services, contracts for public records databases, requirements, electronic services defined — division of data processing may be consulted.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2014, 2 histories
610.029. Governmental agencies to provide information by electronic services, contracts for public records databases, requirements, electronic services defined — division of data processing may be consulted. —
1. A public governmental body keeping its records in an electronic format is strongly encouraged to provide access to its public records to members of the public in an electronic format. A public governmental body is strongly encouraged to make information available in usable electronic formats to the greatest extent feasible. A public governmental body shall not enter into a contract for the creation or maintenance of a public records database if that contract impairs the ability of the public to inspect or copy the public records of that agency, including public records that are online or stored in an electronic record-keeping system used by the agency. Such contract shall not allow any impediment that as a practical matter makes it more difficult for the public to inspect or copy the records than to inspect or copy the public governmental body's records. For purposes of this section, a usable electronic format shall allow, at a minimum, viewing and printing of records. However, if the public governmental body keeps a record on a system capable of allowing the copying of electronic documents into other electronic documents, the public governmental body shall provide data to the public in such electronic format, if requested. The activities authorized pursuant to this section shall not take priority over the primary responsibilities of a public governmental body. For purposes of this section the term
"electronic services"
means online access or access via other electronic means to an electronic file or database. This subsection shall not apply to contracts initially entered into before August 28, 2004.
2. Public governmental bodies shall include in a contract for electronic services provisions that:
(1) Protect the security and integrity of the information system of the public governmental body and of information systems that are shared by public governmental bodies; and
(2) Limit the liability of the public governmental body providing the services.
3. Each public governmental body may consult with the information technology services division of the office of administration to develop the electronic services offered by the public governmental body to the public pursuant to this section.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 170, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1095, A.L. 2004 S.B. 1020, et al., A.L. 2014 H.B. 1299 Revision)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.030 - Injunctive relief authorized.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
610.030. Injunctive relief authorized. —
The circuit courts of this state shall have the jurisdiction to issue injunctions to enforce the provisions of sections 610.010 to 610.115.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 1 § 5, A.L. 1982 H.B. 1253, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1095)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.032 - Executive agency disclosure of closed records, purpose, procedure — executive agency defined.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 10 May 1994, see footnote
610.032. Executive agency disclosure of closed records, purpose, procedure — executive agency defined. —
1. If an executive agency's records are closed by law, it may not disclose any information contained in such closed records in any form that would allow identification of individual persons or entities unless:
(1) Disclosure of such information is made to a person in that person's official capacity representing an executive agency and the disclosure is necessary for the requesting executive agency to perform its constitutional or statutory duties; or
(2) Disclosure is otherwise required by law.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, including, but not limited to, section 32.057, such closed information may be disclosed pursuant to this section; however, the providing executive agency may request, as a condition of disclosing such information, that the requesting executive agency submit:
(1) The constitutional or statutory duties necessitating the disclosure of such information;
(2) The name and official capacity of the person or persons to whom such information will be disclosed;
(3) An affirmation that such information will be used only in furtherance of such constitutional or statutory duties; and
(4) The date upon which the access is requested to begin, when the request is for continuous access.
3. Any executive agency receiving such a request for closed information shall keep the request on file and shall only release such information to the person or persons listed on such request. If the request is for continuous access to such information, the executive agency shall honor the request for a period of one year from the beginning date indicated on such request. If the requesting executive agency requests such information for more than one year, the agency shall provide an updated request for closed information to the providing executive agency upon expiration of the initial request.
4. Any person receiving or releasing closed information pursuant to this section shall be subject to any laws, regulations or standards of the providing executive agency regarding the confidentiality or misuse of such information and shall be subject to any penalties provided by such laws, regulations or standards for the violation of the confidentiality or misuse of such information.
5. For the purposes of this section,
"executive agency"
means any administrative governmental entity created by the Constitution or statutes of this state under the executive branch, including any department, agency, board, bureau, council, commission, committee, board of regents or board of curators of any institution of higher learning supported in whole or in part by state funds, any subdivision of an executive agency, and any legally designated agent of such entity.
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(L. 1994 S.B. 685)
Effective 5-10-94
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.035 - State entity not to disclose Social Security number, exceptions.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1999
610.035. State entity not to disclose Social Security number, exceptions. —
No state entity shall publicly disclose any Social Security number of a living person unless such disclosure is permitted by federal law, federal regulation or state law or unless such disclosure is authorized by the holder of that Social Security number or unless such disclosure is for use in connection with any civil, criminal, administrative or arbitral proceeding in any federal, state or local court or agency or before any self-regulatory body, including the service of process, investigation in anticipation of litigation and the execution or enforcement of judgments and orders, or pursuant to an order of a federal, state or local court. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the disclosure of Social Security numbers of deceased persons shall be lawful, provided that the state agency disclosing the information knows of no reason why such disclosure would prove detrimental to the deceased individual's estate or harmful to the deceased individual's living relatives. For the purposes of this section,
"publicly disclose"
shall not include the use of any Social Security number by any state entity in the performance of any statutory or constitutional duty or power or the disclosure of any Social Security number to another state entity, political subdivision, agency of the federal government, agency of another state or any private person or entity acting on behalf of, or in cooperation with, a state entity. Any person or entity receiving a Social Security number from any entity shall be subject to the same confidentiality provisions as the disclosing entity. For purposes of this section,
"state entity"
means any state department, division, agency, bureau, board, commission, employee or any agent thereof. When responding to any requests for public information pursuant to this chapter, any costs incurred by any state entity complying with the provisions of this section may be charged to the requester of such information.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1043 § 1, A.L. 1999 H.B. 453)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.103 - Criminal background check completed without fee, when.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1998
610.103. Criminal background check completed without fee, when. —
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, whenever a criminal background check is requested in connection with gaining employment, housing or any other services or benefit of any homeless former member of the organized militia or the Armed Forces of the United States who has been honorably discharged, such background check shall be completed and transmitted to the requesting party without any fee or other compensation for such background check or copy of any relevant public record pertaining to such request. For purposes of this section
"homeless"
means an involuntary state characterized by a lack of housing or shelter.
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(L. 1998 H.B. 1046)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.105 - Effect of nolle pros — dismissal — sentence suspended on record — not guilty due to mental disease or defect, effect — official records available to victim in certain cases.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2006, 2 histories
610.105. Effect of nolle pros — dismissal — sentence suspended on record — not guilty due to mental disease or defect, effect — official records available to victim in certain cases. —
1. If the person arrested is charged but the case is subsequently nolle prossed, dismissed, or the accused is found not guilty or imposition of sentence is suspended in the court in which the action is prosecuted, official records pertaining to the case shall thereafter be closed records when such case is finally terminated except as provided in subsection 2 of this section and section 610.120 and except that the court's judgment or order or the final action taken by the prosecutor in such matters may be accessed. If the accused is found not guilty due to mental disease or defect pursuant to section 552.030, official records pertaining to the case shall thereafter be closed records upon such findings, except that the disposition may be accessed only by law enforcement agencies, child-care agencies, facilities as defined in section 198.006, and in-home services provider agencies as defined in section 192.2400, in the manner established by section 610.120.
2. If the person arrested is charged with an offense found in chapter 566, section 568.045, 568.050, 568.060, 568.065, 573.200
*
, 573.205
*
, or 568.175, and an imposition of sentence is suspended in the court in which the action is prosecuted, the official records pertaining to the case shall be made available to the victim for the purpose of using the records in his or her own judicial proceeding, or if the victim is a minor to the victim's parents or guardian, upon request.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 1 § 7, A.L. 1981 H.B. 554, A.L. 1993 H.B. 170, A.L. 1998 H.B. 1095, A.L. 2001 S.B. 267, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1053)
*Section 568.080 was transferred to section 573.200 and section 568.090 was transferred to section 573.205 by S.B. 491, 2014, effective 1-01-17.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.106 - Suspended sentence prior to September 28, 1981, procedure to close records.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1981
610.106. Suspended sentence prior to September 28, 1981, procedure to close records. —
Any person as to whom imposition of sentence was suspended prior to September 28, 1981, may make a motion to the court in which the action was prosecuted after his discharge from the court's jurisdiction for closure of official records pertaining to the case. If the prosecuting authority opposes the motion, an informal hearing shall be held in which technical rules of evidence shall not apply. Having regard to the nature and circumstances of the offense and the history and character of the defendant and upon a finding that the ends of justice are so served, the court may order official records pertaining to the case to be closed, except as provided in section 610.120.
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(L. 1981 H.B. 554)
(1985) Held, that a witness can be impeached by his prior guilty plea, even though he had completed probation under a suspended imposition of sentence. State v. Brooks, (A.) 694 S.W.2d 851.
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.110 - Failure to recite closed record excused — exceptions.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1981
610.110. Failure to recite closed record excused — exceptions. —
No person as to whom such records have become closed records shall thereafter, under any provision of law, be held to be guilty of perjury or otherwise of giving a false statement by reason of his failure to recite or acknowledge such arrest or trial in response to any inquiry made of him for any purpose, except as provided in section 491.050 and section 610.120.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 1 § 8, A.L. 1981 H.B. 554)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.115 - Penalty.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 1981
610.115. Penalty. —
A person who knowingly violates any provision of section 610.100, 610.105, 610.106, or 610.120 is guilty of a class A misdemeanor.
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(L. 1973 S.B. 1 § 9, A.L. 1981 H.B. 554)
2023 Missouri Revised Statutes › Title XXXIX - Conduct of Public Business › Chapter 610 - Governmental Bodies and Records › Section 610.122 - Arrest record expunged, requirements.

Title XXXIX CONDUCT OF PUBLIC BUSINESS
Chapter 610
• Effective - 28 Aug 2021, 2 histories
610.122. Arrest record expunged, requirements. —
1. Notwithstanding other provisions of law to the contrary, any record of arrest recorded pursuant to section 43.503 may be expunged if:
(1) The court determines that the arrest was based on false information and the following conditions exist:
(a) There is no probable cause, at the time of the action to expunge, to believe the individual committed the offense;
(b) No charges will be pursued as a result of the arrest; and
(c) The subject of the arrest did not receive a suspended imposition of sentence for the offense for which the arrest was made or for any offense related to the arrest; or
(2) The court determines the person was arrested for, or was subsequently charged with, a misdemeanor offense of chapter 303 or any moving violation as the term moving violation is defined under section 302.010, except for any intoxication-related traffic offense as intoxication-related traffic offense is defined under section 577.023 and:
(a) Each such offense or violation related to the arrest was subsequently nolle prossed or dismissed, or the accused was found not guilty of each offense or violation; and
(b) The person is not a commercial driver's license holder and was not operating a commercial motor vehicle at the time of the arrest.
2. A record of arrest shall only be eligible for expungement under this section if no civil action is pending relating to the arrest or the records sought to be expunged.
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(L. 1993 H.B. 170 § 1 merged with H.B. 562 § 11, A.L. 1995 H.B. 135, A.L. 2014 H.B. 1665 & 1335, A.L. 2021 S.B. 53 & 60)
(2005) Statutory expungement of criminal records is civil in nature and is constitutional under legislative procedural requirements and provisions of ex post facto, equal protection, due process, and separation of powers. In re Dyer, 163 S.W.3d 915 (Mo.banc).