• In a guest column concerning Senate Bill 373 (which would add a temporary exemption to the Freedom of Information Act for attorney-client communications and attorney work product records related to threatened or pending litigation against a public agency) that appeared March 19 in Perspective, author JoAnn C. Maxey, General Counsel, University of Arkansas System, noted that the authors of the sixth edition of The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act write that entities subject to the FOIA face a "severe disadvantage in litigation." The correct quote from p. 465 of the book is that a lawyer representing a public agency "is at a significant disadvantage in litigation."
Editorial on 03/26/2017