{"id":6320,"date":"2026-10-24T05:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/st-louis-pauses-police-chief-robert-tracys-pay-raise\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T10:44:07","slug":"st-louis-pauses-police-chief-robert-tracys-pay-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/24\/st-louis-pauses-police-chief-robert-tracys-pay-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Pauses Police Chief Robert Tracy\u2019s Pay Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> City officials halt a controversial $112,000 salary increase as Missouri\u2019s governor requests an investigation into possible Sunshine Law violations by the state-appointed police board. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) In a significant reversal involving the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department\u2019s leadership, city officials have suspended Police Chief Robert Tracy\u2018s $112,000 annual pay increase, citing legal concerns about the process used to approve his new employment agreement. The decision, announced Friday, October 23, comes as Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe has requested a state investigation into whether the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners violated Missouri\u2019s Sunshine Law<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/st-louis-pauses-police-chief-robert-tracys-pay-raise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City officials halt a controversial $112,000 salary increase as Missouri\u2019s governor requests an investigation into possible Sunshine Law violations by the state-appointed police board. ST. LOUIS, MO \u2013 October 24, 2026 (STL.News) In a significant reversal involving the St. Louis&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6322,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6320\/revisions\/6322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}