Mike Parson: “You don't need government to tell you to wear a dang mask.”

The Republican attorney general delayed a hearing on the case twice, maintaining Strickland was guilty.

We’re in the process of kind of going through that now and the state will, for the most part, probably fulfill the request.

Strickland’s case was not a priority.

Last fall, the Republican governor of Missouri, Mike Parson, asked law enforcement to pursue charges against a local reporter in Missouri, because that reporter reported accurately on a security flaw in the state computer systems.