Employer Access to Employee Personal Social Media Accounts in Missouri
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At a glance
| Governing law and covered accounts | No dedicated ordinary-employer personal social-account access statute in current Missouri statutes |
|---|---|
| Covered employers, employees, and applicants | No dedicated account-access statute covering ordinary employers, employees, or applicants |
| Credential and observed-access demands | No general employer social-account statute addresses passwords or observed access |
| Contact and privacy-setting demands | No general employer social-account statute addresses contacts or privacy settings |
| Refusal, retaliation, and hiring | No dedicated social-account refusal or hiring protection |
| Investigation and specific-content route | N/A No dedicated employer account-access investigation route |
| Employer accounts, public content, and regulated work | N/A No dedicated account-access exceptions |
| Inadvertently received credentials and use | N/A No dedicated inadvertent-credential rule |
| Enforcement and remedies | No dedicated ordinary-employer social-account access remedy |
What Missouri law addresses
The current Title XVIII index includes Chapter 285, Employers and Employees Generally. Searches across the current Revised Statutes found no general provision dedicated to an ordinary employer's demand for a worker's or applicant's personal social media password, private account display, contact addition, or privacy-setting change. The search also found no special refusal remedy or investigation procedure for such a demand.
This narrow result does not establish that every request is lawful. Other law and the facts of a particular request may matter.
Common questions
Does Missouri have a special process for an employer to request private social-account content during an investigation? The current statute and bill searches found no dedicated ordinary-employer process.
Is there a dedicated Missouri social-account remedy for refusing to share a password? The current statute search found no such remedy. That says nothing about remedies another law might supply on different facts.
Statutes and sources
- Revised Statutes of Missouri, Title XVIII chapter table — “285 Employers and Employees Generally”; https://revisor.mo.gov/main/Home.aspx (accessed 2026-10-23).
- Revised Statutes of Missouri, Chapter 285 index — “Chapter 285 Employers and Employees Generally”; https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=285 (accessed 2026-10-23).
Source links
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