Legislative Audits: Faulkner County

While elections and citizen involvement provide many checks and balances on Faulkner County government, who audits Faulkner County’s financial and day-to-day operations?

The Arkansas Legislature’s Legislative Audit operation monitors each county’s daily operations, and helps ensure sound financial management and accountability of public resources by performing over 1,000 financial audits, reviews, and special reports each year.

Here are highlights of Faulkner County’s Legislative Audit reports since 2015 (Former County Judge Jim Baker was in office from 2015 through 2022, when County Judge Allen Dodson was elected):

“If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel.”
— Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister

“The public has a right to know what their elected officials are doing because it’s the people’s job to hold those folks politically accountable.”
— Peter Scheer, Executive Director, the First Amendment Coalition

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”
— Frederick Douglass

“The word misinformation literally just means being wrong, and disinformation is lying. That’s all they mean. There’s no extra meaning to them. And so, misinformation is entirely subjective. It’s literally an opinion.”
— Michael Shellenberger

Legislative Audits: Faulkner County

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