LITTLE ROCK — A member of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission says the panel has voted to drop a proposal to amend its public-information policies that had drawn fire from Gov. Mike Beebe and Attorney General Dustin McDaniel.
Commission member Emon Mahony of El Dorado said the commission took the action Monday at a special meeting called to consider the matter. He said the matter was dropped out of respect for Beebe and McDaniel.
Last week, a three-member panel of the commission recommended approval of a measure that would restrict public access to a vast amount of information, ranging from potentially "embarrassing" information to names of people who hold hunting and fishing licenses.
McDaniel said the Game and Fish Commission had no authority to rewrite the state's Freedom of Information Act, and Beebe threatened to strip state funding from the agency.