Missouri attorney general candidate fought records request
(AP) — A law professor and Republican candidate for Missouri attorney general has said his university emails and other documents are not subject to state open records laws, documents provided to The Associated Press on Wednesday show.
Emails provided to AP show University of Missouri School of Law associate professor Josh Hawley argued to university attorneys that his records don't fall under the Sunshine Law.
Hawley is running for attorney general, the statewide elected official whose office is in part responsible for enforcing the state's open records laws.
In the emails, Hawley said whether state open records laws cover public university faculty who don't serve as administrators or "perform administrative functions seems a very open question," calling current laws "at best ambiguous."