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Committee approves measure to bar public employees from tipping off subjects before inspections
Summary
House Bill 1410 would bar public employees from providing advance notice of governmental inspections intended to improperly influence results; sponsor cited incidents at a landfill and elsewhere where advance notice allegedly undermined regulatory testing. The committee passed the bill by voice vote and committee chair announced it passed.
Representative Steve Unger told the Senate committee House Bill 1410 would add language to Arkansas Code (employee ethics provisions) prohibiting a public employee from providing advance notice of an inspection where the purpose of the disclosure is to "improperly influence the outcome of the inspection" or to alter or manipulate conditions to evade detection.
Unger said the bill arises from complaints that,…
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