DHS STATE HOSPTIAL EMPLOYEE ON THE RUN WITH MENTAL PATIENT - DHS SAYS THEY WILL FIRE HER WHEN THEY FIND HER

MICHELLE MESSER, A DHS/ASH PSYCHOLOGIST TOOK OFF WITH PATIENT/INMATE CORY CHAPIN

Read the post on our Bad Arkansas Department of Human Services blog. Click here to view it.

 

ARKANSAS ETHICS COMMISSION SETS PROBABLE CAUSE HEARING FOR FORT SMITH DISTRICT JUDGE JIM O'HERN AND COHORTS IN ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS MATTER

O'HERN'S MUGSHOT FROM A BOTCHED LRPD INVESTIGATION

The Arkansas Ethics Commission has set a Probable Cause hearing for March 16th at 9:00 a.m. for Fort Smith District Judge Jim O'Hern, his campaign treasurer and two financial contributors.

The complaint involves an illegal campaign contribution O'Hern accepted during his campaign for District Judge. You can view the Citizen Complaint by clicking here. 

Arkansas Ethics Commission _Judge James O'Hern Probable Cause Hearing Notice by Russ Racop on Scribd

We expect the Commission to make a finding that probable cause exists for a violation of Arkansas Code 7-6-203 and will set a date for a hearing on the facts.

Stay tuned for updates.

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***UPDATE - 03/16/18***

For an unknown reason, the probable cause hearing for Judge Jimbo was passed until April 20th.

 
 

PORN WATCHING FORT SMITH CITY EMPLOYEE IDENTIFED - VIDEO SHOWS HIM LOOKING AT PORN WHILE SITTING IN HIS CUBICLE

STEPHEN DAW,  A FT. SMITH CITY EMPLOYEE WATCHING PORN AT WORK

Last week we posted about a story that was featured on Today in Fort Smith, a digital news service in Fort Smith. You can read that post by clicking here.

The story detailed shenanigans with the city of Fort Smith in which a city employee, Stephen Daw,  was caught viewing pornography at work and a subsequent  attempt by the city of Fort Smith to prevent the public from having detailed information about the matter.

This evening, Today in Fort Smith updated their coverage and reported that the city of Fort Smith IT Department found the remains of treasure trove of porn, from the mostly deleted and wiped hard drive from Daw's city owned laptop. You can view their post by clicking here.

 

Here is the video that Geffken and the city of Fort Smith did not want made public.

  

Today in Fort Smith sent a Freedom of Information request to the city of Fort Smith and the prickly city administrator Carl Geffken objected to the request and sent a request for Attorney General Leslie Rutledge to back him up.

FORT SMITH CITY ADMINISTRATOR CARL GEFFKEN

Rutledge jumped all over Geffken in her response chastising him for "lumping" all the records together and claiming that they were "employee evaluation records".

Rutledge told Geffken that his decision to withhold records was against the law.

Arkansas Attorney General's Opinion 2018-023 by Russ Racop on Scribd

Geffken, being put in his place and schooled on our Freedom of Information Act and had to then provide Today in Fort Smith the requested information.

Here is the information prickly Fort Smith City Administrator Carl Geffken turned over to Today in Fort Smith.

City of Fort Smith Freeedom of information Response by Russ Racop on Scribd

There may be more details coming out regarding this mess as we sent a FOI request for internet activity reports, including cookies and bookmarks.

Stay tuned for updates.


***UPDATE 4/3/18*** 

Our friends at Today in Fort Smith did some investigating after receiving information and discovered that Daw was forced to resign a previous position in New Mexico due to posts made on his Twitter account.

You can read the post by Today in Fort Smith by clicking here.

 

CITY OF FORT SMITH INVOLVED IN MORE FOI NON-COMPLIANCE SHENANIGANS

According to a story posted online by Today in Fort Smith, an employee of the IT Department of the city of Fort Smith was caught in the act of viewing pornography on his city owned computer.

 

Today in Fort Smith reported that the incident  occurred  back in January in which an employee of the city's Information Technology Department was "sent home" as a disciplinary action after being observed viewing pornography on a city owned computer during city time.

According to sources, the incident, which possibly was captured  on  video as  evidence and was taken by another employee, resulted in the offending employee being "sent home" for less than a day for the breach of city policy.

Today in Fort Smith sent a Freedom of Information request to the city and was advised that there was no releasable information regarding the incident. 

Today In Fort Smith FOI request & Response by Russ Racop on Scribd

When the city employee was sent home that was in fact a form of suspension, thus making the details surround that particular personnel action releasable under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

After some difficulty and having a terse, contentious telephone conversation with the Fort Smith City Administration Carl Geffken,  a pretentious prick, we made a verbal FOI request for a document that listed the names and positions for all employees in the city's Information Technology Department and asked that it be emailed to us.

CARL EUGENE GEFFKEN - FORT SMITH CITY ADMINISTRATOR - STUFFS HIS FACE

Like Today in Fort Smith, we will also be submitting a FOI request for documents regarding the incident and hope that they refuse to provide us with documents as well. We haven't been in court over a FOI denial of rights matter in a while and have some new legal arguments ready to try out.

The city of Fort Smith has a long history of shitting on transparency - take your pick from one of the posts by attorney and fellow blogger Matt Campbell on his Blue Hog Report - http://www.bluehogreport.com/tag/fort-smith-police-department/

Numerous lawsuits have been filed against the city regarding non compliance with the AFOIA and they are in the middle of another one currently.

We look forward to having our turn.

Stay tuned.

DFA REVENUE SECURITY COORDINATOR CURTIS BRIGGS BLOCKS ACCESS TO PUBLIC MEETING - VIOLATION OF RIGHTS COMPLAINT TO FOLLOW

DFA EMPLOYEE CURTIS BRIGGS BLOCKED ACCESS TO A PUBLIC BUILDING OVER HURT FEELINGS

The publisher of this blog attempted to enter a public building today to attend an open public meeting and was denied access by DFA Revenue Security Coordinator Curtis Briggs.

Briggs illegally denied our publisher access to a public building and a public meeting due to butt-hurt over a previous post made about him on this blog in which we exposed him lying to the North Little Rock Police Officer when Briggs deceptively indicated that he was a Little Rock Police officer killing time trolling through Burns Park while waiting to execute a search warrant in Lonoke. 

Briggs actually worked for the Arkansas Insurance Department. And his being in the park had nothing to do with his work as an employee of the Insurance Department.

NLRPD accused him of Criminal Impersonation in a police report.

Briggs resigned, in lieu of being fired,  from the Little Rock Police Department according to sources.

Briggs lied when confronted by our publisher that he had been the subject of a post on this blog.

We were not surprised that Briggs would lie. He has a lengthy history of lying as we pointed out in our previous post.

Why DFA would hire Briggs is a question that DFA will more that likely never answer.  We understand he left employment with  the Insurance Department unwillingly.  But DFA has no problems hiring liars, after all they hired Boyce Hamlet to head ABC Enforcement.

Denial of access to a public building for a public meeting will not go well for Briggs or DFA.

Stay tuned for the rest of the story.

PLANNED STUDENT PROTEST IN FORT SMITH MIGHT BE DERAILED BY SCHOOL DISTRICT

STUDENT ACROSS THE U.S. ARE ENGAGING IN PROTESTS FOR FOR TIGHTER GUN CONTROL

According to a report by Today in Fort Smith, a  "March For Our Lives "event set for March 24th in support of the nationwide demonstrations for the "March For Our Lives" movement is being advertised as scheduled at Fort Smith Northside High School,  but such an event is seemingly in violation of a policy set forth by the Fort Smith School Board in late July of 2015.

Today in Fort Smith was first made aware of the proposed event when a flyer was forwarded to them from a post on the Facebook page of a Sebastian County Democratic organization.

As Today in Fort Smith points out, if the event is being held on school property or utilizing school facilities, it would seemingly be in direct violation of a policy put in place in July of 2015 in which the school board voted 5-2 in favor of updated requirements governing the community’s use of school facilities

That update added a “viewpoint neutral” requirement on non school-related events.

Fort Smith Public School Use of Facilities Policy by Russ Racop on Scribd

ETHICS COMMISSION ISSUES FINAL ORDER IN APRIL MATHIS COMPLAINT

The Arkansas Ethic Commission has issued the Final Order in the April Mathis Complaint.

Mathis still faces possible criminal charges in connection with her illegal activities as a Special Prosecutor has been assigned to review a criminal complaint filed by the Conway Police Department.

Mathis may have trouble rounding up funds to pay the $500.00 fine due to the Ethics Commission as according to source from a financial institution in Faulkner County, Mathis obtained a job in their loan department but failed to mention all her shenanigans and penchant for snooping in matters that did not concern her.  They fired her for withholding information and being less than candid about her legal situation. You can't have someone like Mathis having access to sensitive customer information.

You can read our previous posts about Mathis by clicking here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

We have sent a request for the entire case file and will upload it and provide a link when we have received it.

April Mathis AEC Final Order by Russ Racop on Scribd