The lawsuit filed on behalf of two longtime police reform advocates says the takeover violates a ban on special laws and ...

The governor said he was appointing Derek Winters, a St. Louis native and chief operating officer of KNOWiNK, as transition ...

The City of St. Louis is suing the State of Missouri over its plan to take control of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. City leaders threatened a lawsuit when Missouri lawmakers passed ...

The new law also requires St. Louis to increase its spending on the police department each year through 2028. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is promising to defend the law. “Rather than ...

A new Missouri law gives a state board control over the St. Louis Police Department, instead of the mayor, similar to the system in Kansas City. The lawsuit calls it an unfunded mandate because it ...

The lawsuit echoes complaints about mandatory funding that were included in a lawsuit filed by Board of Aldermen President ...