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IS MANDY DAVIS THE RIGHT PERSON TO RUN JERICHO WAY?

AMANDA "MANDY" ELIZABETH MAYNARD-FALLON-DAVIS The city of Little Rock once tried to operate a homeless day center in what was the building that house the Union Rescue Mission. They failed miserably and then paid a Catholic based charity group to run it. DePaul USA initially had a nun run their Jericho Way center, which was and is only open during the week and only until 2:30 p.m. each day (they turn folks out at 2:00 p.m though). When she moved on, a young inexperienced, freshly graduated social worker. Mandy Fallon (her name at that time) was put in charge. Mandy's prior work experience had been as a caretaker for the non-medical service company  Home Instead Senior Care . Her duties there included sponge baths, changing diapers and dumping out bedpans for seniors with Alzheimer's and dementia.  MANDY CLAIMS BEGIN A COLLEGE STUDENT MAKES HER A "HIGHER EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL" As her LinkedIn page from that time indicates, she had little prior work experience...

FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT JOHN COLBERT SUED OVER VIOLATION OF ARKANSAS FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT

The full complaint can be viewed by clicking here . Newly hired Fayetteville Public School Superintendent John L. Colbert has decided to violate the rights of our publisher under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.  COLBERT Our publisher requested documents concerning the firing of Colbert's former boss,  Matthew Wendt back on June 19th. WENDT FPS attorney Missy Duke claims Colbert can't release the documents because someone, probably Wendt, has told Colbert that he will seek "intervention" from the court to prevent release of the public records regarding his firing. DUKE (on right) FPS has no right to withhold the requested records no matter what Wendt or anyone else threatens to do. Wendt's attorneys requested an opinion from Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge after the FPS had determined that the documents were releasable under the AFOIA. Rutledge's opinion was clear and direct - the material sought was releasable under the AFOIA. You can read ...

LRPD FAILS TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER - FILES FALSE AFFIDAVIT WITH CLERK

As most followers of the blog know, the publisher of this blog filed an AFOIA complaint against befouled LRPD Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner earlier this month. We announced the scheduling of the hearing on our Bad Government in Arkansas Twitter and Facebook pages. That hearing was held today and our publisher won his case against Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner, who was noticeably absent to the consternation of Judge Wendell Griffen. Griffen noted that Buckner had been properly served notice of the suit back on June 13th, and should have been expecting a hearing to be held in seven days at the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act provides. As the service of the summons was made on Buckner on June 13th by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, but not filed until June 18th, the hearing was set as soon as it could to be in compliance with the AFOIA.  It was stated that Buckner was on vacation, but our sources at LRPD advise that he was in actually in town at the time of the hearing and was no...