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Missouri Attorney General Tells Schools, Health Departments to End COVID Orders

By | December 7, 2021 | 0
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt speaks to a gathering of Missouri Highway Patrol officers in April 2021.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt instructed school districts and local public health departments to immediately stop enforcing health orders a judge ruled unconstitutional last month, and warned Tuesday they may face legal action if they fail to do so.

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Missouri Health Department Found Mask Mandates Work, But Didn’t Make Findings Public

By | December 1, 2021 | 0
Donald Kauerauf, the director of the Department of Health and Senior Services, speaks during a press conference at the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City on July 21, 2021

Mask mandates saved lives and prevented COVID-19 infections in Missouri’s biggest cities during the worst part of the delta variant wave, an analysis by the state Department of Health and Senior Services shows.

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For-profit Kansas Prison an Understaffed ‘Hell Hole’ of Violence, Death and Drugs

By | October 7, 2021 | 0
Melody Brannon, federal public defender in Kansas, said her clients who are detained at CoreCivic’s Leavenworth Detention Center are terrified.

Attorneys and former guards describe CoreCivic’s pre-trial detention facility in Leavenworth as out of control,

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Judge Rules Against AG Challenge to Masks in Missouri Schools. Columbia Case Continues

By | September 28, 2021 | 0
Boone County Circuit Judge Brouck Jacobs, center, listens to opening statements Tuesday as Solicitor General John Sauer argues for an order blocking mask rules in public schools.

Face masks will stay on for students and teachers in districts requiring them, a Boone County judge ruled Tuesday, handing Attorney General Eric Schmitt a defeat in his efforts to use the courts to block mask mandates.

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Once Upon a Time in Missouri: Republican Attorney General Backed Mandatory Vaccination

By | September 14, 2021 | 0
Mark Kirchhoff, left, a volunteer with Columbia Project Homeless Connect, speaks July 29, 2021 with Taylor Knoth, a public health nurse, at the registration table for a COVID-19 vaccination clinic.

During a 1921 smallpox outbreak in Kansas City, the state health board required vaccine passports to board trains. The case is pertinent in today’s COVID-19 vaccine debate.

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