Josh Renaud<p>Among local governments, St. Louis city is in a class by itself with its glacial handling of records requests. </p><p>For a third straight year, the city took more than 100 days to answer the Post-Dispatch's annual request for payroll data. </p><p>St. Louis County needed just 8.</p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/government-politics/article_fdf898ea-5cb1-433d-bff5-3515b7e4f8c2.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">stltoday.com/news/local/govern</span><span class="invisible">ment-politics/article_fdf898ea-5cb1-433d-bff5-3515b7e4f8c2.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stl</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/stlouis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>stlouis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/missouri" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>missouri</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/localjournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>localjournalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datajournalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datajournalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dataviz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dataviz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opendata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opendata</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>transparency</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicrecords</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/openrecords" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>openrecords</span></a></p>