KC Studio: Missouri Remembers: New Website Features Artists in Missouri Through 1951. “Missouri Remembers currently features 323 artist entries with biographical narratives and links to exhibitions, awards and relationships with other artists, teachers, students, dealers, etc.”
Reclaim the Records: A Million New Records From Missouri. “The Missouri Birth Index has been updated with 588,542 new records from 1910-1919 and 2016-2022, for a total of 8,090,516 records covering 1910-2022. The Missouri Death Index has been updated with 482,900 new records from 2016-2022, for a total of 3,081,382 records covering 1968-2022.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Cyberattack hits main St. Louis-area police database, shuts down system for a day. “A cyberattack earlier this week caused a major law enforcement database to shut down for about a day, leaving local police departments to lean on backup procedures for arrest reports, jail logs and law enforcement records.”
Missouri Independent: Kansas City police made arrests based on rescinded warrants, records show. “The issue arose when the police department switched from one software for tracking warrants to another. It’s unclear how long it went on or how long the individuals were held.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri health agency quietly scrubbed sexual health, LGBTQ resources from website. “As Missouri lawmakers were considering the most anti-LGBTQ bills of any state, the state health department quietly scrubbed youth sexual health and LGBTQ resources from its website. Lisa Cox, the spokesperson for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, emailed the agency’s website team in late January directing the removal of links from the website’s adolescent and teen health information page.”
Kirksville Daily Express: Missouri Judiciary launches website to help public learn about remote public access to case documents. “The Missouri Judiciary is launching a new website to help the public learn more about major upcoming changes to Case.net, the web-based search portal for information about Missouri court cases. The remote public access website uses a question-and-answer format to explain the upcoming changes, which will allow for access to public case documents from personal electronic devices. A short video also is available.”
Southeast Missourian: More court records soon available to public online. “Beginning in July, based on a directive by the Missouri Supreme Court, more documents will be accessible to the public from their computers. The upgraded, more-accessible system will roll out in phases across the state. Cape Girardeau County Circuit Court is expected to update its system in October, though new requirements will kick off for attorneys July 1. The mandated requirements are an attempt to fulfill the state’s policy that ‘records of all courts are presumed to be open to any member of the public for purposes of inspection or copying’.”
UniWatch: More Research Leads to Incredibly Comprehensive St. Louis Cardinals Uni/Logo Database. “Oliver has now created an incredible online database (similar to the Gridiron Uniform Database or Dressed to the Nines), in which Oliver ‘redrew all our uniform models and reincorporated all of our new research,’ to create the most comprehensive collection of the logos and uniforms of the Cards!”
Missouri Independent: ‘Attempted intimidation’: Missouri AG sent five requests for MSU emails, records. “Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office said a request for a professor’s emails was ‘part of a fact-finding process.’ The professor said it felt like attempted intimidation for criticisms of Schmitt on social media.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: New law, less sunlight: Missouri takes down contract website. “Gov. Mike Parson’s administration shut down access Monday to a website that allows Missourians to track who is winning potentially lucrative state contracts. In an announcement posted on an Office of Administration’s procurement website, officials say a new law is forcing them to remove contract award information from public access for privacy reasons. The new law, which was signed by Parson, went into effect Sunday.”
Daily Journal Online: New Missouri State Archives’ YouTube channel is launched. “Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has announced the launch of a new YouTube channel curated by the Missouri State Archives, a division within his office. The platform offers the public unprecedented access to historic films created by Missouri state government, along with recordings of the State Archives’ Thursday Evening Speaker Series and other Missouri history-related content.”
Springfield News-Leader: Missouri court documents will be available online to anyone starting next summer. “Rule changes announced by the Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday will allow anyone to access public court records through the state judiciary’s online database, Case.net, starting on July 1, 2023. Currently, only summaries of cases are available online; to access documents and other filings, you need to find a public access terminal at your nearest courthouse.”
Missouri Independent: Appeals court hears arguments over Greitens’ use of self-destructing text message app. “A panel of state appeals court judges heard arguments last week over whether former Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff used self-destructing text-message apps in 2017 to illegally circumvent Missouri’s transparency laws. While Greitens was still serving as governor, it was revealed he and his staff were using a text-messaging app called Confide. The app allows someone to send a text message that vanishes without a trace after it is read. It also prevents anyone from saving, forwarding, printing or taking a screenshot of the message.”
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missouri launches data dashboard to track rising drug overdose deaths. “In addition to an online COVID-19 data dashboard showing the seriousness of the pandemic, the state of Missouri has launched another public dashboard to track the increasing number of drug overdose deaths. Drug overdose has become the leading cause of death among Missouri adults age 18 to 44, state health officials say. More than 70% of the deaths involve opioids such as heroin and fentanyl.”
KHQA: Missouri A.G. sues Biden Administration officials for alleged social media censorship. “The Missouri Attorney General, alongside the Louisiana Attorney General, filed a lawsuit against several key players in the Biden Administration for ‘allegedly colluding with Social Media Giants’ in censoring conspiracy theories and misinformation on social media.”
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