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Committee approves law limiting public employee advance notice of inspections
Summary
The Senate panel advanced House Bill 1410, which would prohibit public employees from giving advance notice of an inspection when the disclosure is intended to improperly influence the inspection; sponsors said the change addresses documented problems at landfills and other regulated facilities.
House Bill 1410, presented by Representative Steve Unger, would add to the state employee ethics code a prohibition on providing advance notice of an inspection when the disclosure is intended to improperly influence inspection outcomes, manipulate conditions to evade detection, or provide an unfair advantage to the inspected party.
Representative Unger opened by describing complaints that Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality staff had warned operators ahead of air sampling at a landfill, allowing operators to alter conditions and produce inconclusive tests. “This came to me around the tiny town landfill,” Unger said, describing…
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