Taxpayers in Huntsville's School District must fork over $12,912 in attorneys' fees to Fort Smith attorney Joey McCutchen after the district lost a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed against the board. Circuit Judge Doug Martin found the board guilty of committing several FOIA violations in the case brought by Benjamin Rightsell of Witter.
The good people of Huntsville on Tuesday sent a stinging rebuke of their school board's terrible mishandling of the notorious "bean dipping" and "baptism" scandal by voting to send three of the current seven-member board, including President Danny Thomas, packing.
That student-on-student sexual abuse scandal continued to play out the other day when Circuit Judge Doug Martin ruled the Huntsville School District Board violated the state's Freedom of Information Act on multiple occasions, which could wind up costing taxpayers there some hefty court fees.
Huntsville school officials weren't legally required to immediately call the Arkansas Child Abuse Hotline to report accusations of sexual abuse among boys on the junior high school basketball team, according to Prosecuting Attorney Matt Durrett.