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Political Editor Mark Maxwell talks to Senator Josh Hawley about Missouri court ruling that his office "knowingly and purposefully" violated transparency laws.

A judge in Missouri has ruled the state attorney generals office under Josh Hawley (R-MO) violated the states Sunshine Law while he ran for Senate in 2018.

A Cole County judge ordered the Missouri Attorney General to pay $12,000 in penalties for violating the Missouri Sunshine Law when it failed to turn over public records that were potentially embarrassing to then-attorney general Josh Hawley.

A Missouri judge Monday dismissed the city of St. Louis effort to block a 2021 law bolstering protections for police under investigation for misconduct.

A Cole County judge Monday ruled staff in the Missouri attorney generals office, while it was being run by now-U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, used private email accounts to "knowingly and purposefully" subvert the states open records law.

A Cole County judge ordered the Missouri Attorney General to pay $12,000 in penalties for violating the Missouri Sunshine Law when it failed to turn over public records that were potentially embarrassing to then-attorney general Josh Hawley.

Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem denied the city’s claims that the 2021 state law bolstering protections for police under investigation for misconduct was unconstitutional.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Attorney General’s Office, under the leadership of then-Attorney General Josh Hawley, violated the state’s open records law by withholding emails between Hawley’s taxpayer-funded staff

A Cole County judge ordered the Missouri Attorney General to pay $12,000 in penalties for violating the Missouri Sunshine Law when it failed to turn over public records that were potentially embarrassing to then-attorney general Josh Hawley.

The attorney general’s office must pay $12,000 in civil penalties — the maximum allowed under state law — plus attorney’s fees.