Missouri’s 1973 Sunshine Law guarantees its people the right to look up, assess, and retrieve records held by municipalities around the state, including court papers, traffic offenses, marriage and divorce certificates, property and lien records, and a lot more. This information contain names, dates, information on situations, sentences, processes and more, and are all assumed public unless otherwise stated. This legislation, which had been generally based on the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, are in place to ensure U.S. Citizens and people of Houston Lake are able to understand their protection under the law, and hold regulators and criminals liable for their actions, promoting a free and open culture for everyone.