Opinion No.

Ms. Paula Pumphrey, Director Department of Community Punishment 323 Center, Suite 1210 Little Rock, AR 72201

Dear Ms. Pumphrey:

This is in response to your request for an opinion regarding the "outside employment" of some employees of the Department of Community Punishment. In your request, you express concern about outside employment that might pose a conflict of interest and note that the Department has established an internal policy requiring its employees to obtain prior approval of second employment. You then ask whether the Department could be held liable for any of the outside employment…