LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A push to amend Arkansas's Freedom of Information Act of 1967 can now move forward after Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin approved the wording of the ballot proposal on Monday afternoon.
Previous versions of the measure had been rejected before, but now the new proposal would be called the Arkansas Government Disclosure Act.
It is an initiated act that goes along with a proposed amendment that would put the state's sunshine laws in the constitution that won permission to gather signatures last week.
The committee Arkansas Citizens for Transparency is pushing to get both the initiated act and the amendment before voters in November.
The amendment itself needs more than 90,000 signatures, but the initiated act that was given the green light on Monday only needs a little over 72,000 signatures.
The petitions will need to be turned in by July 5 to be certified by the Arkansas Secretary of State.