Accountability, Ethics, & Transparency in Government
After as many as five different FOIA bills were offered over three long days of the Legislature’s Special Session, things at the State Capitol are quiet now, after Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders finalized the...
After a third attempt in less than five months to drastically alter the state’s Freedom of Information Act, the Republican-majority Arkansas Legislature has narrowed its current legislation to contain only security plan-related information. Filed...
Honorable Legislators, Senator Scott Flippo, the sponsor of SB7 and co-sponsor of HB1003, the identical bills to amend the AR Freedom of Information Act, is my state senator. I respectfully request a few moments...
by Joey McCutchen We must fight to keep FOIA strong! It’s fine to modernize and have thoughtful discussions BUT not weaken FOIA. Any changes to weaken FOIA is wrong and an out war should...
Pro-FOIA supporters who opposed Rep. Mary Bentley’s FOIA bill HB1610 were surprised when Representative David Ray (R, Dist. 69) filed a more far-reaching bill, HB1726, during the last few days of the General Session....
Rep. Mary Bentley’s HB1610 — which passed the House but failed in Senate committee — was slated to change Arkansas’s gold standard Freedom of Information Act in a big way, by defining the word...
