WEIRDLY, THEY WERE ALL NAMED KAREN: Personal information from 900+ St. Louisan tipsters exposed on social media. “A spree of social media posts this week warn that St. Louis County released the information it got from people who reported businesses in violation of the stay-at-home order. The document, released in response to a Sunshine Law request, included names and contact information of the people making the reports. In their messages, some asked for anonymity. . . . The Missouri Sunshine Law gives the public and media the right to request records made or received by any public agency, with some exceptions. Among those exceptions is a clause allowing tips to municipal hotlines about abuse and wrongdoing to be withheld. But the county’s review of the request found no reason to withhold information about who sent the tips.”

You can ask for anonymity, but you may not be entitled to it. And the presumption should be against anonymity.