ARKANSAS: 'Activist' Supreme Court Ruling on police ID photos called 'poor' by Co-Author of AFOIA
State 'Activist' Supreme Court overturns decision, restricts dissemination of police ID photos Advocates for state’s open-records law say high court’s decision overly broad by John Lynch | Arkansas' 'Activist Court' Makes Mockery of AFOIA. Casts valid doubts upon judiciary credibility. An Arkansas Supreme Court ruling that restricts the dissemination of police identity photographs was described Thursday by open-records advocates as "over broad" and a "ridiculously poor" ruling by an "activist court." In a five-page decision written by Justice Robin Wynne, the high court overturned a lower court ruling that designated a collection of ID photographs of Arkansas State Troopers a public record. Such pictures are colloquially referred to as "mug shots." The photo set, which police had released previously, was to include all troopers, except for those working undercover. ID photographs of undercover police are shielded from d