Arkansas' Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, has rules for notifying the public when a public entity has a meeting.
Recently, a former board member with the Craighead County-Jonesboro Public Library board filed a FOIA complaint saying a subcommittee of the board met in October without notifying the public.
To understand Arkansas' FOIA rules about meetings, KASU's Brandon Tabor spoke to Dr. Ron Sitton, Assistant Professor of Multi-Media Journalism at A-State and instructor of communications law.
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