Missouri AG Investigating Kansas City Mayor's Office For Doxxing Harrison Butker

The Attorney General of Missouri announced Friday he has launched an investigation into the possible doxxing of Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker and has put the Kansas City Mayor's office on notice he wants information how it happened.

Andrew Bailey released on X the letter he sent to Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas via certified mail and emailed to the mayor's public cyber address at mayor@kcm.org.

KC Account Revealed Town Butker Lives

The letter is in response to a tweet from the Kansas City, Missouri official account earlier this week that made the point Butker does not actually live in the city but rather stated where he lives.

It was an obvious attempt at suggesting Kansas City is somehow better than Butker.

Butker has been under fire since Saturday when he delivered a commencement speech at Benedictine College that has inflamed those on the left, including the LGBTQ organization GLAAD, liberal sports media, and even the DEI chief at the NFL.

Butker's apparent transgression is that, as a Catholic giving an address at a Catholic shool, he disagreed with President Biden on abortion. He also compared pride month to a "better God-centered pride." And he encouraged female graduates to dismiss "diabolical lies" that they cannot serve their families as homemakers, mothers and wives.

The negative reaction from one segment of the population has been swift and at times withering, with multiple petitions being authored to have Butker fired (released) by the Chiefs.

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, left, speaks to reporters during a press conference on May 3, 2023. He was joined by Bill Corrigan, right, the stateâs deputy attorney general. (Kacen Bayless/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Kansas City Says, "We Apologies"

It was during that early assault on Butker that the Kansas City account put his information out there.

The tweet was then deleted and a new tweet saying "we apologies," showing the person running the account is not a literary genius, was soon posted.

Lucas also apologized for the tweet, but it was too late. The original tweet was everywhere as a screengrab. And that went viral.

Bailey apparently wasn't amused.

Now, he is part of a growing pushback by those coming to Butker's defense and his right to state his opinions.

"It has been reported that the city of Kansas City has retaliated against a well-respected local resident and member of the Kansas City Chiefs after he spoke about his religious views," the letter from the AG to Mayor Lucas reads.

"Your office's X account likely publicly released residential location information on a private citizen, Harrison Butker, in an attempt to retaliate against him for expressing his sincerely held religious beliefs at a religious college's commencement ceremony --to an audience that largely shares his views."

KANSAS CITY, MO - FEBRUARY 14: Harrison Butker looks up at the crowds during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl LVIII Victory Parade on Feb 14, 2024 in Kansas City, MO. (Photo by Scott Winters/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Retaliation For Religious Beliefs Discriminatory

No, that's not all. The letter further states …

"Use of government social media to retaliate against an individual based on their religious beliefs amounts to discriminatory behavior that is not tolerated under our Constitution or Missouri statute.

"Our nation is founded on a bedrock commitment to the free exercise of religion. In addition, Missouri law specifically prohibits faith-based discrimination against Missouri residents. Yet, your office apparently believes it is appropriate to denigrate a devout Catholic for comments he made about his own faith at a religious college."

"Missouri’s Human Rights Act prohibits government actors from discriminating against citizens because of their sincerely held religious beliefs. . .. To any employer or government official considering such a move, I assure you that I am prepared to use the authority provided in statute to defend the principle of free religious expression."

And here's the legal part:

"Whenever the attorney general has a reasonable cause to believe that any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of resistance to the full enjoyment of any of the rights granted by this chapter or that any group of persons has been denied any of the rights granted by this chapter, and such denial raises an issue of general public importance, he may bring a civil action to any appropriate state court..." [Section 213.126.1, RSMo.] "

Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas speaks during a "Fentanyl Summit" at the Kansas City Health Department on Dec. 8, 2023, in Kansas City, Missouri. (Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

Quinton Lucas Office Under Scrutiny

Bailey enclosed a demand for information related to the mayor's office "retaliatory social media post" with his letter. So, the Kansas City mayor's office is thus under investigation:

"Mr. Butker was well within his rights to discuss his religious views - views which are shared by millions of members of his faith tradition," the letter reads in its concluding paragraph. 

"Sadly, history is filled with examples of people of religious faith being targeted for their beliefs by government officials."