A 1991 conviction for a felony charge of Theft by Deception makes her ineligible Janice Hicks is running for the Ward 1 seat on the El Dorado, AR City Council. Hicks is ineligible to hold any elected office in the state of Arkansas due to a 1991 conviction for Theft by Deception. Hicks was able to get her felony records sealed in 2024, but she is still barred from holding any elected office. Hicks filed a petition to seal her conviction in November 2024. Union County Circuit Court Judge David Graham signed an order on November 25, 2024. Under Article 5, Section 9 of the Arkansas Constitution, any person convicted of embezzlement of public money, bribery, forgery, or any other "infamous crime" is permanently ineligible to hold or run for elected office in the state. Infamous crimes in Arkansas includes any felony or misdemeanor involving deceit, fraud, or false statement. Hot check convictions under the Arkansas Hot Check Law have been repeatedly classified as crimes of dece...
On May 19th, a LRSD Central High employee sent us a video of a white teacher bodyslamming a Black female student. Based on information provided to us, two Black female student were fighting and two teachers intervened. In the video one teacher can be observed to be restraining one of the girls and the other teacher grabs the other girl, lifts her up into the air and slams her onto the floor. Then he can be seen standing over her as a LRPD School Resource Officer ("SRO") arrives. After we posted the video on social media outlets, another Central High employee contacted us and gave us his name - Jason McCann and that the student he attacked was a 9th grader. They also told us that Nancy Rousseau, the long in the tooth Central High Principal recently forced into retirement, was trying to keep the incident secret. That teacher also told us that McCann had been involved in another student violence incident recently. McCann attacked a Black male student over the student's us...