After Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders called a special legislative session in mid-September in what turned out to be a mostly failed effort to gut the state’s Freedom of Information Act, supporters of an effort to insert the FOIA as an amendment to the state constitution.
High-profile citizen- led ballot initiatives — and their path to the ballot — took center stage this week and could stay there throughout the election season. All the initiatives are still at step one in the process, which is being certified by Attorney General Tim Griffin.