Director, Missouri Department of Public Safety v. Murr

EDWIN H. SMITH, Judge.

This is an appeal from the judgment1 of the circuit court reversing the decision of the Administrative Hearing Commission (the AHC) ordering the Missouri Department of Public Safety (the DPS) to certify Steve Murr (Murr) as a peace officer pursuant to § 590.120.5.2

In the DPS’s sole point on appeal, it claims that the AHC erred in ordering it to certify Murr as a peace officer, even though he did not have a high school diploma or its equivalent, as required by 11 C.S.R. 75-3.020(3), because: (1) contrary to the finding of the AHC, it did have the authority, under §…