Troutt Bros., Inc. v. Emison

Robert H. Dudley, Justice.

This appeal requires us to construe the Freedom of Information Act, Ark. Code Ann. §§ 25-19-101 — 108 (Repl. 1992). Two sixteen-year-old girls and one fifteen-year old girl were arrested in Mississippi County. One was arrested for stabbing a victim to death, another for carrying a deadly weapon, and the third for felony theft. After their arrests, the three were transported to the Craighead County Juvenile Detention Center, a regional facility. Under the governing statutes, the two sixteen-year-old girls could have been charged as adults, Ark. Code Ann. § 9-27-318…