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Published October 27, 2007 08:15 pm - Missouri Western State University hands them out before a meeting. Missouri State University and Truman State University make them available online. But a member of the public who requests a meeting packet from Missouri Southern State University’s Board of Governors will be told “no” — for now.
MSSU board withholds meeting packets from public
By Joe Hadsall
jhadsall@joplinglobe.com
Missouri Western State University hands them out before a meeting.
Missouri State University and Truman State University make them available online.
But a member of the public who requests a meeting packet from Missouri Southern State University’s Board of Governors will be told “no” — for now.
Members of public governmental bodies often receive packets of information regarding the business at hand at upcoming meetings. Those packets contain agendas, financial statements, and other documents used for doing business.
Board Chairman Dwight Douglas said that MSSU hasn’t made those packets available to the public because they are deliberative documents meant for discussion purposes. But that may change, he said.
“Usually, the packets have only the agenda and financial report,” Douglas said. “We have never made those public. But, I haven’t discussed this with the full board, and that is something I may well do.”
The university mails a meeting agenda to the Globe, usually received two days in advance of a meeting.
Three Globe reporters who previously covered MSSU over the past 10 years said they never requested packets, but did request documents used during a meeting. All three said the university provided any documents requested.
Douglas did not return follow-up calls from the Globe asking whether that practice would continue.
But the policy of keeping packets from the public stands in contrast to Missouri’s Sunshine Law, said Jean Maneke, attorney for the Missouri Press Association.
“There is nothing in the Sunshine Law that allows that,” Maneke said. “Those are records retained by a public body, and the university needs to make those available.”
Chapter 610.023 of Missouri Revised Statutes says that a public governmental body must make public records available for inspection and/or copying. Chapter 610.010 defines “public records” as any record retained by a public governmental body.
Only documents used in a closed session may be kept from the public, according to the law.
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