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ARKANSAS: 'Activist' Supreme Court Ruling on police ID photos called 'poor' by Co-Author of AFOIA

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  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

Little Rock's 'hands-on' police chief is suspended 'after accidentally shooting woman, 22, while aiming for another female suspect, 29, during NYE patrol

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SNARKY MEDIA GROUP NYE SHOOTING IN LITTLE ROCK COVERAGE GOES INTERNATIONAL: Snarky Media Group DailyMail.com https://www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Little-Rock-police-chief... Little Rock's 'hands-on' police chief is suspended 'after accidentally shooting woman, 22, while aiming for another female suspect, 29, during NYE patrol Little Rock's police chief has been suspended after he accidentally shot and critically injured a woman while aiming at another woman filmed shooting a gun on New Years Eve. Police Chief Keith Humphrey was put on leave in accordance with the Little Rock Police Department guidelines for officer-involved shootings on Saturday, one day after he shot and critically injured 22-year-old Kelecia Mayo as he tried to take down suspected shooter Taz Hayes, 29. Dramatic video showed a woman arguing with a man before smashing the window of a car with a phone. A second woman - said to be Hayes - then runs into shot and opens fire, but doesn't hit anyone. Hum

Little Rock Police Chief under investigation for multiple state felony criminal offenses.

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  BREAKING STORY...STAY TUNED... Click pics to enlarge Text reads:   I hope that you realize that you will be the single-most significant reason for Scott losing his job. All Landers had to do was promise the black community that he would get rid of you, to win their votes. You fired Scott. Landers will fire you, because he didn't. And then maybe we can get a chief that will not commit multiple documented felonies to hide public records they want illegally concealed from the public. Govern yourself accordingly, follow the law or get the hell out of the way. The People's business comes first and your chronic documented felonious attempts to obstruct governmental operations will no longer be tolerated. You are a disgrace to the law enforcement community.  A citizen complaint against Custodian of Records, LRPD Chief Humphrey and Asst. Chief Wayne Bewley was filed in November by a public corruption investigator... In that meeting with the public corruption investigator, evidence wa