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The Little Rock Civil Service Commission reconvened Wednesday to hear additional testimony in the appeal hearing for David Mattox, a police officer who was terminated because of his involvement in last year's search for a man suspected of exposing himself to women in the city.
The Little Rock Civil Service Commission on Thursday overturned the firing of David Mattox, a former police officer who was terminated earlier this year because of his involvement in a 2020 indecent-exposure investigation in which his wife was one of the victims.
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott Jr. in a news release Monday announced that no disciplinary action will be taken against Police Chief Keith Humphrey after complaints from within the Police Department that triggered a human-resources investigation conducted by a university official.
Members of the Little Rock Board of Directors at a meeting Tuesday grilled outside attorneys on the controversy over how the Arkansas Municipal League and its hired counsel has handled settlement negotiations on behalf of Little Rock with the estate of Bradley Blackshire, who was killed by a city police officer in 2019.
Members of the Little Rock Board of Directors in a meeting Wednesday addressed the ongoing rift between City Attorney Tom Carpenter and outside attorneys regarding the tentative settlement to a lawsuit against the city over the 2019 fatal police shooting of Bradley Blackshire.