Officials with the Pine Bluff Urban Renewal Agency, which lost close to $700,000 in fraudulent payouts, will have to explain the negative audit findings associated with those transactions when their agency is called to a hearing on Oct. 13 with the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee.
The Arkansas Freedom of Information Act was front and center Wednesday in a federal court hearing called to determine if attorneys for a Cabot woman banned from public schools in the city will be allowed to access documents from the defendants by using the open-records law instead of going through the normal discovery process.
An appeals court panel has sided with the Pulaski County Special School District and vacated a judgment in favor of an assistant superintendent who sued the district after she was passed over for the superintendent position in 2018.
Leaders in the Pulaski County Special and Jacksonville/North Pulaski school districts sent notice to a federal judge that there are hitches in their effort to complete campus construction projects.