Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says he will seek to intervene in a Fort Smith case in which criminal penalties in the state Freedom of Information Act were held unconstitutional.
Can't link it because it's behind a pay wall, but the Hot Spring Sentinel Record carried an interesting report today on remarks by Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
When the University of Arkansas announced Friday four candidates for president of the UA System, I renewed my request to UA spokesman Ben Beaumont for notice of all meetings of the University Board of Trustees, including those involving only two members of the Board.
Some tidbits of Pulaski County school news from Stephens Media:
* There'll be no criminal charge filed over the complaint that the Pulaski County School District had withheld text messages from Superintendent Charles Hopson's phone.
An update to yesterday's item about Stephens Media's complaint to the prosecutor about Pulaski School Superintendent Charles Hopson's failure to turn over phone and e-mail records requested under the FOI.
Stephens Media has filed a criminal complaint with Prosecutor Larry Jegley because Pulaski County School Superintendent Charles Hopson didn't respond to FOI requests for his cell phone and e-mail records.
The Associated Press and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported yesterday and today on assertions by Secretary of State Mark Martin's executive assistant, Teresa Belew, that she quit because of the office's unwillingness to fully comply with the state Freedom of Information Act in responding to requests for information from the Arkansas Times.
Talk about a waste of government time and paper, not to mention outrageous. Rep. Justin Harris, the West Fork Republican and heir apparent to Mark Martin in that strange political corner of Arkansas, has already made headlines for his government-financed church school (which might offer to service to undocumented children) as he inveighs against government spending and illegal immigrants.
I am surprised that 11 employees of AASIS, the state 's computerized information system, objected to release of their names, job titles and pay under a Freedom of Information Act request by Seth Blomeley of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
An opinion from the attorney general today reveals that the state Game and Fish Commission needs every bit of the lawsuit that Sheffield Nelson has filed against them.