Kevin Murphy, who endured several controversies during a four-decade career in Arkansas corrections, apparently has announced that he's retiring effective Nov. 1.
The Arkansas Insurance Department today announced a settlement of a long-running investigation of what it found to be a bogus insurance operation run by Kevin Murphy, who now heads the state Community Correction Department.
The state Board of Corrections at a special called meeting this morning voted without dissent to hire interim chief Kevin Murphy as permanent head of the Community Correction Department.
The report says DCC Chief Deputy Kevin Murphy received over $204,000 in salary and another $49,000 in reimbursements and insurance benefits from serving as the executive director of the Arkansas Association of Correctional Employees Trust, or AACET, while he was also earning an average of $97,804 annually in his administrator position at DCC from 2014 to 2017.
If you don't check Rock Candy do. Today, arts writer Leslie Peacock delves into executive changes at the Walton-financed Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, drawing heavily from another blogger's interview with former curator Kevin Murphy.
Lee Rosenbaum, who blogs as CultureGrrl, reveals an interview she had with former Crystal Bridges Museum of Art curator Kevin Murphy, in which he said he regretted what he saw as a desire to put on popular, contemporary shows rather than delve deeper into the early American collection, his area of expertise.