Doe v. Isom

ROY L. RICHTER, Presiding Judge.

Col. Daniel Isom, Chief of Police for the Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis, the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, and the Missouri State Highway Patrol (collectively, “Appellants”), appeal from a declaratory judgment in favor of John Doe (“Doe”), a Missouri resident, on Doe’s petition seeking removal of Doe’s name and identifying information from the federal and Missouri’s sex offender registries. We reverse and remand.

I. BACKGROUND

The facts of this case are not in dispute. In May 2008, Doe hacked into the email account of A.R., the 15…