ARKANSAS STATE POLICE COMMISSION v. DAVIDSON

No. 5-6191.

490 S.W.2d 788 (1973)

The ARKANSAS STATE POLICE COMMISSION, J. E. Dunlap, Jr., Chairman, et al., Appellants, v. B. G. DAVIDSON, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

February 26, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ray Thornton, Atty. Gen., by Henry Ginger, Deputy Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellants.

Jerry J. Screeton, Hazen, F. Russell Rogers, Stuttgart, James M. Thweatt, Hazen, for appellee.


BYRD, Justice.

The issue on this appeal is whether the appellants, The Arkansas State Police Commission, J. E. Dunlap, Chairman, et al, can hold the hearing required by Ark. Stat. Ann. § 42-406(d) (Repl.1968), for the reinstatement of a discharged State Policeman in executive session under the Freedom of Information Act, (Act 93 of 1967). The trial judge construed the Freedom of Information Act to require that the hearing of testimony, as distinguished from a...

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