It is vital in a democratic society that public business be performed in an open and public manner so that the electors shall be advised of the performance of public officials and of the decisions that are reached in public activity and in making public policy. Toward this end, this chapter is adopted, making it possible for them or their representatives to learn and to report fully the activities of their public officials.
Ark. Code Ann. § 25-19-102
Legislative intent
Known as the Freedom of Information Act
The act spans §§ 25–25 (12 sections).
Applied in 15 court decisions — leading case Pulaski County v. Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc. (2007)
Most recently applied in City of Fort Smith, a Municipal Corporation v. Wade (June 2019)
Acts 1967, No. 93, § 2; A.S.A. 1947, § 12-2802.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.