State and Local Government / Criminal Justice

Patrick Tuohey on KTRS

By Show-Me Institute Staff on Feb 18, 2020

How much money should a municipality be allowed to make from fees and fines?

This morning, SMI’s Patrick Tuohey joined McGraw Milhaven on The Big 550 KTRS to discuss reports that the Missouri Attorney General is asking to be allowed to enforce portions of a 2015 law that Missouri courts initially set aside in 2016. The law at issue “set minimum standards for municipalities in St. Louis County and capped the amount of revenue they could raise in municipal court from traffic cases.”

LISTEN: https://soundcloud.com/550ktrs/show-me-institute-reinstating-court-caps

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