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Opponents of the Arkansas LEARNS Act will have to go back to the drawing board in their effort to get a measure repealing the law on the ballot.
The group, Citizens for Public Education and Students, or CAPES, says it will resubmit the referendum and that it will work with a sister organization to push a constitutional amendment next year that would replace the LEARNS Act.
Ellen Kreth is the publisher of the Madison County Record. Ryan Owsley is a staff member in the office of state Attorney General Tim Griffin. In an article in Thursday's newspaper about a legislative committee meeting on proposals to change the state' Freedom of Information Act, Kreth's first name and Owsley's last name were misspelled.
A bill that would have limited uses of the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) failed to pass in committee Wendesday.
Griffin announced Friday the office’s new “unified supervisory structure” will be led by Chief Deputy Attorney General Bob Brooks Jr.