JEFFERSON CITY

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is accused in a new lawsuit of violating state law after allegedly omitting data from the state’s annual vehicle stops report that shows whether minority drivers were stopped by police more frequently than white drivers.

The lawsuit, filed this week by the Missouri NAACP, also alleges that Bailey, a Republican, and the University of Missouri violated the state’s open records law by withholding public records about the decision. The NAACP sought records showing why the data, called a “Disparity Index,” was left out of the 2023 report, which was published last year.

“The Respondent Honorable Attorney General has the present, imperative, and unconditional duty to include a ‘disparity index’ …in his annual report,” according to the

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