Mon, Mar 2nd, 2009
Missouri needs to strengthen, clarify Sunshine Law, some say..
JEFFERSON CITY — For 18 months, a cloud of suspicion has blocked out some of the sunshine from the second floor windows of the Missouri Capitol.
Investigators tapped by the attorney general's office tried to determine whether then-Gov. Matt Blunt and his employees were following the public accountability laws that require certain documents to be maintained as open records.
In fact, some laws were being skirted, investigators argued in their final report, which was released this month after more than a year and a half of legal wrangling and political squabbling in which Missouri's Sunshine Law became front page news.
So now, 18 months later, what has changed? The biggest change took place the day the investigation started, when Blunt announced he was implementing a new e-mail retrieval system that would preserve every e-mail sent from the governor's office.
That system is still in use in the governor's office today, but it hasn't been expanded to other departments because of concerns over cost.
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