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25-19-108. Information for public guidance.
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25-19-108. Information for public guidance.
(a) Each state agency, board, and commission shall prepare and make available:
(1) A description of its organization, including central and field offices, the general course and method of its operations, and the established locations, including, but not limited to, telephone numbers and street, mailing, electronic mail, and internet addresses and the methods by which the public may obtain access to public records;
(2) A list and general description of its records, including computer databases;
(3)(A) Its regulations, rules of procedure, any formally proposed changes, and all other written statements of policy or interpretations formulated, adopted, or used by the agency, board, or commission in the discharge of its functions.
(B)(i) Rules, regulations, and opinions used in this section shall refer only to substantive and material items that directly affect procedure and decision-making.
(ii) Personnel policies, procedures, and internal policies shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
(iii) Surveys, polls, and fact-gathering for decision-making shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
(iv) Statistical data furnished to a state agency shall be posted only after the agency has concluded its final compilation and result;
(4) All documents composing an administrative adjudication decision in a contested matter, except the parts of the decision that are expressly confidential under state or federal law; and
(5) Copies of all records, regardless of medium or format, released under § 25-19-105 which, because of the nature of their subject matter, the agency, board, or commission determines have become or are likely to become the subject of frequent requests for substantially the same
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-19-108
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25-19-108. Information for public guidance.
(a) Each state agency, board, and commission shall prepare and make available:
(1) A description of its organization, including central and field offices, the general course and method of its operations, and the established locations, including, but not limited to, telephone numbers and street, mailing, electronic mail, and internet addresses and the methods by which the public may obtain access to public records;
(2) A list and general description of its records, including computer databases;
(3)(A) Its regulations, rules of procedure, any formally proposed changes, and all other written statements of policy or interpretations formulated, adopted, or used by the agency, board, or commission in the discharge of its functions.
(B)(i) Rules, regulations, and opinions used in this section shall refer only to substantive and material items that directly affect procedure and decision-making.
(ii) Personnel policies, procedures, and internal policies shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
(iii) Surveys, polls, and fact-gathering for decision-making shall not be subject to the provisions of this section.
(iv) Statistical data furnished to a state agency shall be posted only after the agency has concluded its final compilation and result;
(4) All documents composing an administrative adjudication decision in a contested matter, except the parts of the decision that are expressly confidential under state or federal law; and
(5) Copies of all records, regardless of medium or format, released under § 25-19-105 which, because of the nature of their subject matter, the agency, board, or commission determines have become or are likely to become the subject of frequent requests for substantially the same records.
(b)(1) All materials made available by a state agency, board, or commission pursuant to subsection (a) of this section and created after July 1, 2003, shall be made publicly accessible, without charge, in electronic form via the internet.
(2) It shall be a sufficient response to a request to inspect or copy the materials that they are available on the internet at a specified location, unless the requester specifies another medium or format under § 25-19-105(d)(2)(B).
(c)(1) An entity that is subject to this chapter that is not included in subsection (a) of this section may opt in to any provision under subdivisions (a)(1)-(5) of this section through ordinance or resolution enacted by its governing body.
(2) The ordinance or resolution under subdivision (c)(1) of this section shall comply with subdivision (b)(1) of this section.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
25-19-105. Examination and copying of public records.
(a)(1)(A) Except as otherwise specifically provided by this section or by laws specifically enacted to provide otherwise, all public records shall be open to inspection and copying by any citizen of the State of Arkansas during the regular business hours of the custodian of the records.
(B) However, access to inspect and copy public records shall be denied to:
(i) A person who at the time of the request has pleaded guilty to or been found guilty of a felony and is incarcerated in a correctional facility; and
(ii) The representative of a person under subdivision (a)(1)(B)(i) of this section unless the representative is the person's attorney who is requesting information that is subject to disclosure under this section.
(2)(A) A citizen may make a request to the custodian to inspect, copy, or receive copies of public records.
(B) The request may be made in person, by telephone, by mail, by facsimile transmission, by electronic mail, or by other electronic means provided by the custodian.
(C) The request shall be sufficiently specific to enable the custodian to locate the records with reasonable effort.
(3) If the person to whom the request is directed is not the custodian of the records, the person shall so notify the requester and identify the custodian, if known to or readily ascertainable by the person.
(b) It is the specific intent of this section that the following shall not be deemed to be made open to the public under the provisions of this chapter:
(1) State income tax records;
(2) Medical records, adoption records, and education records as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, 20 U.S.C. § 1232g, unless their disclosure is consistent with the provisions of that
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-19-105
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 25-19-105. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.