Pursuant to Section 610.021.14, RSMo.
and based on the reasoning within Attorney General Opinion 95-2001
and City of Springfield v. Events Publishing Co., LLC, 951 S.W.2d
366 (Mo. App. 1997), this policy hereby assumes that persons have
a reasonable expectation of privacy in City records containing information
or entries of a personal, confidential, private, or proprietary nature,
including, but not limited to, income, sales data, financial circumstances,
utility account numbers, and related personal information obtained
within City bills, household and family relationships, social security
numbers, dates of birth, insurance information, and other information
which reasonable persons generally regard as private and not a customary
subject for public discourse but which are requested as part of an
application or other dealings with the City. Accordingly, to protect
that reasonable expectations of privacy on the part of persons having
dealings with the City, City records containing the information similar
to the above, which have been provided to the City by one (1) complying
with regulations or applications requiring the disclosure of such
information, shall be, to the extent authorized by law, redacted from
copies of City records disclosed or provided to members of the public
other than those persons to whom the information or entries pertain.
Persons desiring access to information or entries redacted from such
records may file a supplementary written request with the Custodian
of Records for disclosure of material to be specified in the request,
which request should state:
(1) Whether or not the requesting
party has informed persons to whom the requested information pertains;
and
(2) All reasons why the
requesting party believes disclosure by the City of the specified
information is in the public interest.