DEPT. OF ARK. POLICE v. KEECH LAW FIRM

No. CV-16-545.

516 S.W.3d 265 (2017)

2017 Ark. 143

DEPARTMENT OF ARKANSAS STATE POLICE, Appellant v. KEECH LAW FIRM, P.A., Appellee.

Supreme Court of Arkansas.

Opinion Delivered: April 20, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie Rutledge , Att'y Gen., Little Rock, by: Jennifer L. Merritt , Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellant.

Keech Law Firm, P.A., by: Kevin P. Keech , Little Rock, for appellee.


In 1963, Ruby Lowery Stapleton was murdered. Her murder remains unsolved, and her family has sought access to the Department of Arkansas State Police (ASP) case file. The dispute over whether the records met an exemption under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) culminated in a lawsuit. Following an...

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