Griffin also said the board failed to properly respond to a public records request from his office earlier in December, and he has continued to take issue with the board’s use of private sessions. The suit also challenged the board’s legal authority to retain attorney Abtin Mehdizadegan and Hall Booth Smith law firm. The FOIA suit accused the Board of Corrections of violating the state’s open meetings law when it entered executive session during a pair of December meetings. Griffin sued the Board of Corrections over alleged FOIA violations shortly after it filed a lawsuit of its own against Sanders and former Corrections Secretary Joe Profiri over control of the state prison system.
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The case is one of many facets in the ongoing dispute between the Board of Correction and Sanders, Griffin and other state officials, and a group of lawmakers Thursday afternoon reiterated calls for board member Alonza Jiles to resign over allegations in a civil lawsuit that he covered up child sexual abuse at a youth camp. On Thursday afternoon, Griffin said: “I look forward to defending our case before the Arkansas Supreme Court.”
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The court did not take up Griffin’s motion that it disqualify the private law firm the prison board hired as special counsel to represent it in litigation against Griffin and Gov. The Arkansas Supreme Court in a Thursday order denied AG Tim Griffin’s motion for expedited consideration of his Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Board of Corrections, which was dismissed by a lower court in January.
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Arkansas’ highest court has rejected the attorney general’s request that it speed the appeal of his unsuccessful lawsuit against the state prison board.