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'Freedom of Information Act'

McDaniel seeks to intervene in Fort Smith FOI case

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.
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What is a meeting under FOI law?

Sebastian County Circuit Judge James Cox delivered a disappointing decision for open government advocates yesterday.
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Paranoia runs deep: Dustin McDaniel edition

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.

News flash: UA to obey FOI law

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.
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As Pulaski schools turn

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.

The fight for Pulaski phone records

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.
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More problems for Pulaski School District

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.

Mark Martin's rocky start

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.
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Justin Harris' hissy fit

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.

Public pay is public information

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.
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More guff from Game and Fish

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.

Game and Fish sword swallowing

The governance committee of the state Game and Fish Commission is to meet at 1 p.m. today and Gerard Matthews will be reporting.
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