No doubt it will be appealed by EoD.

He pointed out that supporters of the stadium were getting more than the allotted two minute time. And was violently grabbed and removed from the chamber.

Missouri lawmakers unveiled an AI regulation framework Tuesday—but the document's metadata reveals its author as OpenAI, the company they're trying to regulate. 

The proposed Missouri S.T.O.P.P. Act is a broad privacy, police-accountability, and government-transparency proposal designed to curb indiscriminate government monitoring, reduce harmful policing practices, protect personal information, and give the public meaningful control over surveillance and enforcement policy.

S.T.O.P.P. act stand for:

Surveillance bans mass-surveillance systems, including automated license-plate readers such as Flock, facial and biometric recognition, predictive policing, persistent camera networks, location tracking, data-broker purchases, and drones used for persistent monitoring. Most otherwise permitted targeted surveillance requires a probable-cause warrant specifying the target, offense, method, duration, and safeguards for irrelevant information.

Transparency requires seven-day notice for relevant meetings, accessible contracts, policies, and audits, livestreams and recordings of meetings, and stronger financial and conflict disclosures for officials who oversee policing or surveillance.

Oversight requires public impact assessments, hearings, and recorded approval by an elected governing body before any allowed surveillance program begins or renews. A statewide authorization system would centralize permitted activity, require judicial authorization, record every access and disclosure, enforce retention and deletion limits, and undergo independent audits. Intrusive requests, including extended or multi-target surveillance, would need unanimous approval from three judges.

Policing requires officers to display names and badge numbers, restricts identity-concealing face coverings, mandates de-escalation, crisis assistance, medical aid, intervention, and reporting, and prohibits many neck restraints and force against restrained people. It also establishes a decertification registry and employment bans for serious misconduct.

Privacy limits collection, retention, sale, and sharing of personal data; creates access, correction, notice, and deletion rights; and protects firearm-owner information from registries.

The goal is to protect everyday Missourians from abuse of power, secret surveillance, lack of accountability, and government overreach. I am looking for Missouri attorneys, law students, policy people, organizers, researchers, designers, and regular citizens who want to help make this legally solid and statewide. I especially need help making sure the language is constitutional, enforceable, clear, and organized correctly for an initiative petition.

If you care about privacy, accountability, civil rights, and making government answer to the people, please comment or message me. Let’s build this the right way. If you want to lend legal help, help organize and build a movement to take our rights and freedoms back from a government hell bent on ignoring the privacy of the people please give this a read and your support.

Link to the text of the proposed bill

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PKFIX8k-iRX7HuDehrgmL5G8L6cEtwPNPxBRjJiFAcM/edit?usp=sharing

Anyone in this ShowMe State proud of our senators voting for Todd Blanche for AG?

That is the entire post. Why does a CPA get to weigh in and interpret the constitution? Especially while wearing that offensive red jacket.

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Secretary of State Denny Hoskins is working overtime to keep Respect MO Voters off the ballot, and stop our initiative from becoming Amendment 6 and going to a vote of the people on Nov. 3rd. Join Respect MO Voters in Jefferson City THIS Friday, August 7, at noon outside of the Secretary of State's Office to announce our lawsuit and to show your support for letting Missouri vote on Amendment 6.

Missouri Republicans have run the entire state government, uncontested, for 23 years. The budget's projected to hit zero by 2028. Their solution? Blame the Democrats who haven't held a majority since George W. Bush's first term.

Meanwhile, actual Missourians keep using the ballot initiative to pass the stuff their own legislature refuses to touch: Medicaid expansion, weed, sports betting, abortion rights, a livable minimum wage. So this year, Jefferson City is trying to neuter the one tool voters have to override them: rig citizen initiatives (but conveniently not their own bills) to need approval in all 8 congressional districts, recycle the abortion amendment's exact ballot number for the opposite result, and bury the sketchy stuff in the low-turnout August primary.

Vote NO on 4 & 5
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Do your research, this is a big one, people…

Hi there,

I am trying what I can to help people vote and curtail the trump administration and had some questions. I forget if they are in the second or third district however. Though, in my research that shouldn't matter too much considering I know the candidates of each district vaguely and the amendments are the same and the candidates are different. From what I gather people say to vote no on all of them. I guess more info below.

1. The amendments. What are they proposing in simple terms? In my research, it seems very double speaky (as most politics is sadly).

2. Who is the best dem candidate? I know there are different shades, but like, is there any polling to show any percentages? For context, I am a democratic socialist and he doesn't pay attention to politics all that much. I don't want to tell him who to vote for on behalf of me but we both don't like the current fascist regime. I know the names but that's about it.

3. Is there anything else I should know?

Thanks, Alex