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The human resources director's decision to withhold certain employee records makes it impossible to know if all responsive records have been provided to FOIA requestors, according to the city attorney.

She might as well have bragged about her fiscal conservatism, since words have no meaning anymore.

Griffin's office said Monday that Arkansas Citizens for Transparency's proposal was full of "potential ambiguities" and failed to include the "full text" of the measure.

Director Capi Peck took charge at the Tuesday Board of Directors meeting to outline her experience with helping one of her constituents get an FOI request fulfilled where she claimed that Mayor Frank Scott Jr. instructed city staff not to turn over public records.

An amended lawsuit details the lack of transparency in the Little Rock mayor's administration.

The city of Little Rock has not responded completely or within the legally required time frame to two Freedom of Information Act requests, Prosecutor Larry Jegley told the mayor, city attorney and Board of Directors in an Aug. 25 letter.

New leadership, new software and refreshed FOIA training should increase the FOIA turnaround process from the city. Further investigation to the Big Country Chateau apartments is set for Thursday.

Another complaint about lack of transparency at City Hall.

As much as Arkansans should take the opportunity to come to the cramped galleries on the top floor of the state Capitol to watch their senators at work, it's simply not feasible for hundreds of thousands of them significantly affected by some of the votes cast there. But because the presence of cameras in the Senate chamber and committee rooms has been fervently resisted, as this publication has noted across the years, Arkansans are unable to see their elected officials at work.

A local Republican politico e-mailed to point out that then newly elected Gov. Mike Beebe said this in 2007 after releasing the papers of Larry Zeno, a Parole Board member who had jokes and photos of a racial and sexual nature on his state computer: 

A number of House committees will likely vote this morning on whether to live stream their meetings. Revenue and Tax, Judiciary and Public Health committees all meet this morning at 10:00 a.m. There has been - unfathomably - a debate over whether to use live streaming technology that was installed in four committee rooms last year at the cost of over $300,000.