ARKANSAS TIMES: It was a bad week for...
ARKANSAS TIMES: It was a bad week for...
by Ean Lee Bordeaux on Friday, September 2, 2011 at 12:27pm
http://networkedblogs.com/mjsPh
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION . Attorney General Dustin McDaniel issued an official opinion agreeing that it was legal for the city of Little Rock to withhold hometowns when it released a list of employees. The city asked the opinion because someone [syndicated social justice blogger, Chief Ean Lee Bordeaux (Houma-Choctaw Nation)] sought the list of employees who live outside the city. The statute allows protection of "home addresses" of non-elected public employees and McDaniel's opinion said this "encompasses all components parts of a 'home address'; namely, a street address, zip code, city and county." A city or a county are far from a home address.
We agree with the analysis of the Arkansas Times and intend to pursue this matter further. We do not a