Attorney General Leslie Rutledge plans to use money obtained through lawsuit settlements to fund weapon detection systems at the east and west entrances to the state Capitol to replace the existing metal detectors, Rutledge spokeswoman Amanda Priest said Thursday.
Attorney Phillip Treat has been hired to be the Arkansas Senate s new legal counsel and Zachary Rogers, who has worked in higher education circles, has been hired as the assistant to the Senate president pro tempore for the 94th General Assembly.
The Arkansas Senate on Tuesday handily voted to suspend Sen. Alan Clark and strip him of his seniority until the start of the 2023 regular session Jan. 9, and to recommend the Senate strip him of his seniority during the next two years.
The ethics morass at the state Senate isn t over, not quite in one case in which it ought to be over, and not at all in another in which it ought not to be.
Arkansas Sen. Alan Clark, R-Lonsdale, said he made a mistake in asking Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Ferndale, to sign Clark s name on a sign-in sheet to be paid reimbursement for a Senate Boys State committee meeting June 3 that Clark didn t attend because he was sick.