After overwhelming pushback, Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders scaled down plans to amend the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, instead asking the Legislature to limit public access to records about her security detail.
The change came at the bookend of the second day of a special session the Republican governor called, in part, to amend Arkansas' sunshine law. Earlier proposals to change Arkansas' open records and meeting law, considered one of the most transparent in the nation by press groups, would have limited communications between the governor's staff and cabinet secretaries, made it harder for those who file suit under it to recover legal fees and to prevent records "prepared by an attorney" representing a state official or agency that could be used in pending litigation.
Instead,
