Quillin e-mails public records, justices declare

County's second appeal fails

By Kristin Netterstrom

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LITTLE ROCK — E-mails exchanged between former Pulaski County Comptroller Ron Quillin and his lover, who represented a company that sold the county more than $1.1 million in services, are public records, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Reader poll

Would you read the emails from Quillin's county owned computer if they were made available?

Yes 61% 11 votes
No 38% 7 votes

18 total votes.

The decision came nearly four months after the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette filed a Freedom of Information Act request with Pulaski County to access the e-mails, which Quillin sent and received mainly during work hours.

Although the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision that all but a few e-mails are public records, the e-mails were not immediately available.

For more information see today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

Subscribers can read the story here on ArkansasOnline.

This article was published October 5, 2007 at 6:00 a.m.

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