The state of Missouri enacted the Missouri Sunshine Law which the the state version of the federal Freedom of Information Act. A summary of the law can be found here:
http://ago.mo.gov/sunshinelaw/sunshinelaw.htm
A "public record" is defined as:
(6) “Public record”, any record, whether written or electronically stored, retained by or of any public governmental body including any report, survey, memorandum, or other document or study prepared for the public governmental body by a consultant or other professional service paid for in whole or in part by public funds, including records created or maintained by private contractors under an agreement with a public governmental body or on behalf of a public governmental body; provided, however, that personally identifiable student records maintained by public educational institutions shall be open for inspection by the parents, guardian or other custodian of students under the age of eighteen years and by the parents, guardian or other custodian and the student if the student is over the age of eighteen years. The term “public record” shall not include any internal memorandum or letter received or prepared by or on behalf of a member of a public governmental body consisting of advice, opinions and recommendations in connection with the deliberative decision-making process of said body, unless such records are retained by the public governmental body or presented at a public meeting. Any document or study prepared for a public governmental body by a consultant or other professional service as described in this subdivision shall be retained by the public governmental body in the same manner as any other public record;
You can take a quiz and see how you do on the Missouri Sunshine Law here:
https://www.ago.mo.gov/cgi-bin/quizzes/SunshineLaw.cgi
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