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Bill would require public violent‑crime clearance reporting and create grant program to boost investigations
Summary
House Bill 591 would require the Department of Public Safety to publish violent‑crime clearance rates and establish a grant program prioritizing agencies that publicly report clearance statistics; witnesses from policy groups and national criminal‑justice organizations supported the reporting and resource focus.
Representative West presented House Bill 591 as a two‑part measure: mandatory public reporting of violent‑crime clearance rates by the Department of Public Safety and creation of a Missouri Violent Crime Clearance Grant Program to help agencies improve investigative capacity.
"Beginning 01/01/2026 the Department of Public Safety shall publish clearance rates which shall include the rate at which law enforcement agencies clear an offense by arrest or by exceptional means as defined in the act," the sponsor read from the bill. The measure…
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