Posted By: Hewson Beattie June 14, 2021 @ 6:47 pm Local News, News
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The Missouri attorney general has closed an open-records complaint filed against Gov. Mike Parson, citing the Republican governor’s office as a client.
At issue is a complaint filed by a Missouri news agency after Parson’s office refused to provide resignation letters from top administration officials Randall Williams, the health director, and former Chief Operating Officer Drew Erdmann. The two left Parson’s administration in April but no information was provided as to why.
Parson’s office declined to provide Williams’ and Erdmann’s resignation letters to The Associated Press and also denied a Missouri Independent records request.
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A federal appeals court panel has blocked Missouri from enforcing a sweeping state abortion law that bans the procedures at or after eight weeks of pregnancy. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis handed down the ruling Wednesday. The panel heard arguments in September in the legal battle over the 2019 law, which also would prohibit a woman from having an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome. The lawsuit was filed by Reproductive Health Services, which operates Missouri s lone abortion clinic in St. Louis, and the ACLU. Missouri s Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt says he plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.