Arkansas Gazette Co. v. Southern State College

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

The appellant, Arkansas Gazette Company, brought suit against the Arkansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference seeking to compel the AIC to disclose the amount of money that its member institutions had disbursed to student athletes during the last school year. The lower court denied appellant access to the AIC financial records on the basis that the records were “educational” and were required by law to be closed to the public pursuant to the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, Ark. Stat. Ann. § 12-2804 (Repl. 1979) and The Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of…