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Ronald Lee "Ronnie" Routh, who resigned this week as director of the Pulaski County Juvenile Detention Center, will surrender Monday to face sexual assault and misdemeanor harassment charges involving children at the facility, his lawyer, Bill Watt, said Friday.
A Pulaski County Circuit Court judge didn't have subject-matter jurisdiction to enter a final order regarding the constitutionality of Arkansas' mask-mandate ban, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
The Pulaski County Quorum Court failed to come up with enough votes to declare a vacancy in District 10 on Tuesday.
Former Gov. Asa Hutchinson supported blockage of a law he signed banning government mask mandates.
Pulaski County officials hope to house as many as 400 people who've experienced chronic homelessness at the 150-acre site.