Snarky Media Report

On December 12th, we received an email about Simon Harris, a volunteer coach on the girls softball team at Little Rock School District Southwest High. The tipster provided information that Harris was a convicted sex offender. We verified that information and reached out to Southwest High and LRSD. They acted like they were not concerned (more on that later). In 2004 Harris was convicted of three felony counts of Sexual Assault in the First Degree in Hope, AR. His victim was a 16 year old female. Same age of the students he was working with at Southwest High School. Convicted sex offender Simon Harris coaching at LR Southwest High As a result of his conviction for a sex crime, he was placed on the sex offender registry. In 2021, Harris tried to get removed from that list. He was unsuccessful. That was the same year he became involved in Southwest High's softball program according to our tipster.   We sent a FOI request to LRSD for all records regarding Harris and sent information t...

Pulaski County Clerk Deborah Smith illegally altered records of 132 NLR voters On October 24, 2024, Deborah L. Smith, a voter registration clerk in the Pulaski County Clerk's office resigned her position after she was found to have altered records of 132 voters in a precinct in North Little Rock to place them in one Maumelle.  Smith began employment at the Circuit/County Clerk's office in 1991. Smith's illegal activity was discovered when early voting began on October 21st and a voter in North Little Rock could not find a candidate they want to vote for on their ballot.  That voter contacted the Pulaski County Clerk's office and an internal probe was initated. It was determined that Smith had been able to change the street file for 132 voters in  precinct 051.02 in  North Little Rock to precinct 001.04 in Maumelle. Smith was allowed to resign by Terri Hollingsworth instead of being fired, to try and keep a lid on her illegal activity that  disenfranchised vote...

Brianna "Bri" Dial got shitcanned from MEMS for faking an emergency run to avoid traffic On August 30th, we made a Freedom of Information request to Metropolitan Medical Emergency Services ("MEMS") for copies of personnel files for all current MEMS employees. They provided those records on November 4th. On November 11th, we received information from a MEMS insider. The insider was correct.  Dial's personnel file was included in those provided to us by MEMS and there was nothing in it to indicate that was no longer a MEMS employee or that she had been fired. We had to fight MEMS to get them to release records about Dial's termination. Reluctantly, MEMS provided a copy an an email.   We pressed MEMS for additional records concerning Dial's termination as in previously obtained personnel files of terminated MEMS employees,  there were records that dealt with their termination of employment other than a solitary email. MEMS did not provide those records, but...

  According to records that the Little Rock Police Department refused to provide us in response to a Freedom of Information request, they fired probationary cop James Stone for violating departmental policies when he had an innapropriate relationship with a mentally disturbed, suicidal female after responding to calls at her residence. James Stone Domikia Davis, a LRPD cop assigned to their FOI Unit, told records about Stone could not be provided because he was not fired.   Domikia 'Dee Dee" Davis By the way, Davis herself has a lengthy disciplinary history at LRPD.  Davis and her supervisors at LRPD did not know we had this letter. A letter from LRPD chief Heath Helton to Stone terminating his employment.   The copies of body worn camera videos made when LPRD cops responded to the suicide attempts are not exempt from disclosure under the AFOIA even if they are referenced in an investigation that does not result in suspension or termination as they were not created...