{"id":1511,"date":"2017-09-13T20:15:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2017-09-13T20:15:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T20:15:40","slug":"foia-transparency-outsecret-cronyism-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/?p=1511","title":{"rendered":"FOIA Transparency Out\/Secret Cronyism In?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From today\u2019s Times Record \u2013\u201cThe Board asked to reject FOI deal\u201d \t<\/strong>\tSeptember 13, 2017<\/p>\n

Some quotes from 2 members of the City Board who refuse to accept that the FOIA is a legal document. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the email (re the lawsuit & Civil Service Commission) Good also said he questioned if some have undermined the Police Chief\u2019s authority.\u201d My question, how and what authority has been undermined? <\/p>\n

Good also said \u201cGive him (Clark) the opportunity to perform his sworn duties\u201d. Question: What specific duty has Chief Clark been denied? Former Chiefs have apparently worked very well with existing Civil Service Commission protocols. <\/p>\n

\u201cGiving him authority in policy.\u201d (Good) It appears that Director Good wants Chief Clark to run the PD without Director oversight, public knowledge, and citizen approval by the Official Commission. Forget Administrator Geffken, apparently a tool of Downtown Establishment. Citizens should be apprised of the influence Mayor Sandy Sanders exercises over both Boards. <\/p>\n

With a deal to permit Clark to have full reign over the FSPD will prove the Board\u2019s incompetence as shown by the many recent failures and will demonstrate they have fouled their mess-kits again. <\/p>\n

More later re the likely hiring of Police Chief\u2019s crony Harold Rochon, fresh out of Detroit. <\/p>\n

All is quiet on the home front, absent transparency, e.g. the T.R. & the Fort Smith government.<\/p>\n

Director\u2019s Lau & Lorenz made similar quotes interrelated with Director Good\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Fort Smithians will rue the day that the FS Board of Directors hired Nathaniel Clark.<\/p>\n

Regard this quote from former Captain Copeland from 5 News:<\/p>\n

\u201cAround 25 officers at the Fort Smith Department have retired since the beginning of this year, which is about the same time the new police chief, Nathaniel Clark, took office.<\/p>\n

Former Fort Smith Police Captain Jarrard Copeland said there are a lot of changes happening at the department right now. According to Copeland, some of them needed to happen, but he doesn’t understand a lot of them. One change includes hiring from the outside of the department for high ranking positions, instead of promoting officers who have worked in Fort Smith for years. “Over half of his command staff have left the department,” said Copeland. “I heard him [Clark] make the comment this is normal anytime you have a new chief, which is not true. I’ve worked under six different chiefs of police and don’t know of a single person that has left because of a new chief until now.”<\/p>\n

Joe McCutchen
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From today\u2019s Times Record \u2013\u201cThe Board asked to reject FOI deal\u201d September 13, 2017 Some quotes from 2 members of the City Board who refuse to accept that the FOIA is a legal document. \u201cIn the email (re the lawsuit & Civil Service Commission) Good also said he questioned if some have undermined the Police … Continue reading FOIA Transparency Out\/Secret Cronyism In?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,3,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-city-politics","category-police-state","category-political-correctness-the-destroyer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansasfreedom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}