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 Huntsville School District has been ordered to pay $12,912.50 in attorneys' fees after admitting to several violations of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.
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.
The lawyers who won a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Huntsville School District want the defendant to pay them $13,912.50 in attorneys' fees.