Kim Gardner

Work on the changes began last May, when aldermen approved the Detention Facilities Oversight Board. But supporters will have to carefully count votes, and lobby their colleagues, to send it to the mayor on Friday.

The decision of the three-person panel is in line with a recommendation from Missouri’s chief disciplinary counsel. The state Supreme Court will have the final say.

A state hearing panel was asked to issue a reprimand, the lowest level of formal disciplinary action. It will issue its decision in the next 30 days, though the Missouri Supreme Court will have the final say.

William Tisaby faced seven felony counts in relation to his conduct in the 2018 investigation of Gov. Eric Greitens, including allegations that Tisaby lied during a deposition. He was sentenced to a year of probation Wednesday.

Jury selection is set to begin Thursday in the case against William Tisaby. A judge is still reviewing a motion to dismiss from Tisaby’s attorneys.

A St. Louis police officer shot and killed Cortez Bufford in December 2019. He claimed self-defense. But journalist Alison Flowers believes her forensic analysis demonstrates that he could not have been telling the truth.

A new Missouri law designed to limit local governments in restricting businesses during a pandemic likely won't stop new mask mandates in St. Louis, said the attorneys on the Legal Roundtable on "St. Louis on the Air."

Matthew Mahaffey, St. Louis district defender for the Missouri State Public Defender, explains how problems at the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office are affecting his clients — and harming Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner's reform agenda.

It’s been more than six years since Michael Brown’s killing made St. Louis the epicenter of the most promising civil rights movement since the 1960s. Yet despite stacks of studies and seemingly unprecedented public support for change, St. Louis has not seen a single substantive victory for police reform, thanks in large part to an influential police union and a larger police apparatus that has stymied accountability.

Attorneys Bill Freivogel, Eric Banks and Nicole Gorovsky discuss the ongoing federal trial of three St. Louis police officers charged with beating colleague Luther Hall while he was working undercover. They explain how the officers' fate was nearly decided by an all-white jury.