LRPD FAILS TO COMPLY WITH COURT ORDER - FILES FALSE AFFIDAVIT WITH CLERK

As most followers of the blog know, the publisher of this blog filed an AFOIA complaint against befouled LRPD Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner earlier this month.

We announced the scheduling of the hearing on our Bad Government in Arkansas Twitter and Facebook pages.

That hearing was held today and our publisher won his case against Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner, who was noticeably absent to the consternation of Judge Wendell Griffen.

Griffen noted that Buckner had been properly served notice of the suit back on June 13th, and should have been expecting a hearing to be held in seven days at the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act provides.

As the service of the summons was made on Buckner on June 13th by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, but not filed until June 18th, the hearing was set as soon as it could to be in compliance with the AFOIA. 

It was stated that Buckner was on vacation, but our sources at LRPD advise that he was in actually in town at the time of the hearing and was not scheduled to leave Little Rock until the afternoon. 

Judge Griffen once sent bailiff's to bring Buckner to a hearing that involved him that he decided to skip. 

In his order, Judge Griffen ordered LRPD to provide photos all uniformed, plain clothed, non-undercover officer to our publisher by 4:00 p.m. 

Judge Griffen directed our publisher and city attorney's to provide written confirmation that the photos had been turned over.

At 3:39 p.m. our publisher received  an email from deputy city attorney Rick Hogan advising that a disk with the photos was on it's way to his office at city hall.

At 3:50 p.m. our publisher replied to Hogan's email.

At 3:55 p.m. city attorney Tom Carpenter called our publisher and advised that they had 443 pictures of officers on CD's but they were missing approximately 75 photos from two recruit classes that were on a separate server than the 443 photos they had ready to hand over. 

Carpenter explained they could not located those 75 photos but would have them by Monday. He stated that he thought the photos were being delivered to the courthouse and our publisher advised that he thought they were to be given to him directly.

Carpenter then called a second time at 3:59 p.m. as our publisher was getting into his vehicle to say that the photos were at his office.

Our publisher obtained two CD's containing the 443 photos and a copy of a letter and affidavit that stated all photos had been provided. No mention was made of the missing 73 photos.

In fact the envelope in which the two CD's were placed has "All photos" written on it.

Our publisher faxed a letter to Judge Griffen disputing the accuracy of the affidavit and has a recording of both Carpenter and Hogan explaining the "missing photos" and their assurance that they will have them by Monday.

Right.

LRPD Sgt. Angela Everett provided a false statement, under oath, concerning the photos.

Judge Griffen will not be happy when he gets to work on Monday morning.

Stay tuned for updates. 

#TimeForChange #CleanOutLRCityHall

***UPDATE 6/30/18***

On June 29th, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette published a story by reporter Ginny Monk.

Monk's story was riddled with inaccurate information including the statement that our publisher had confirmed that he had received the photographs.

That was a factual misstatement. He never told anyone from the ARDEMGAZ that he had obtained the photographs from LRPD pursuant to Judge Griffen's Order. 

The statement by Lt. Ford was also a lie. LRPD did not comply with Judge Griffen's order in that they did not turn over all the requested photos - they had 73 they could not locate and Sgt. Everett lied in her affidavit to the court in that she failed to disclose that not all photos were turned over pursuant to Judge Griffen's order and that they had an additional 73 photographs that would have to be provided at a later date.  

Lt. Ford also lied under oath. That will be covered in a future post.

In fact, he was speaking with ARDEMGAZ reporter John Lynch as he arrived at Little Rock City Hall to pick up CD's containing the photographs. He had to cut the call short as he had to get the CD's from city attorney's then get over to LRPD to pick up another FOI response before 5:00 p.m.

Once our publisher returned from picking up the 2 FOI responses, he read Monk's article and posted a comment.

Our publisher incorrectly stated in his response to Monk's article that 49 photos were not able to be located. 49 was the number of photos of undercover officers that were not requested as they are exempt under the AFOIA and were not sought in his request. The number of photographs that LRPD could not locate by 4:00 p.m. was 73. As we previously reported those 73 photos were on a different server than the 443 that were turned over. We suspect that they were actually on a computer at the training academy and they could not access them as personnel had already taken off for the weekend.

The ARDEMGAZ published another story today that was also contained inaccurate information.

LRPD did not follow Judge Griffens' order and provide all the photos. And their numbers concerning the photos are wrong as well.

Our publisher collected 443 photos, not 419, and they could not locate 75 additional photos and city attorney Carpenter and his deputy Hogan told him that those remaining 75 photos would be turned over on July 2nd.

The CD labeled LRPD pictures contained 118 images.

The unlabeled CD contained two folders.

The folder titled Photographs contained 217 images.

  And the folder titled Photographs 2 contained 108 images.

 

LRPD OFFICER THAT USED POSTION TO TRY AND HOOK UP WITH FEMALES RESIGNS - LRPD HAPPY WITH RESIGNATION AS INTERNAL INVESTIGATION FILE STAYS SECRET

LRPD OFFICER JASON "HORNDOG" BUTLER RESIGNS TO END INVESTIGATION

Last month we posted about one of LRPD's finest that had admittedly used his position as an LRPD officer to try and hook up with females, married, single or underage.

You can read that post by clicking here.  

Today we learned that Jason "Horndog" Butler resigned to end the internal investigation into his sketchy predatory behavior and thereby closing and  effectively sealing the massive file put together by  the Internal Investigation Division.

Why befouled LRPD Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner did not fire him months ago is beyond comprehension.

It's time for troubled city manager Bruce "Homewrecker"  Moore to fire Buckner and then resign himself. 

We were able to some information from LRPD and previously posted some documents we obtained concerning previous issues with Horndog.

Take a look at some of the text messages between Horndog and one of the victims of his unwanted sexual advances.

This message exchange happened after Butler repeatedly touched a woman vagina while "frisking" her.

It will be interesting to see if LRPD recommends to the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training that they revoke Horndog's certification.

If they didn't, that means that Horndog can go to work for another law enforcement agency and pick up where he left off.

Trolling another city in the wee hours of the morning looking for another 16 year old girl to take home.



 

RECORDS REVEAL SUSPENDED LRPD OFFICER THAT PICKED UP MINOR IN EARLY MORNING HOURS AND TOOK HER HOME HAS HISTORY OF QUESTIONABLE BEHAVIOR INVOLVING FEMALES WHILE ON DUTY

SUSPENDED LRPD OFFICER JASON "HORNDOG" BUTLER

Records obtained from LRPD, records that they did not want to produce and which they took their sweet time releasing, reveal that the LRPD officer Jason "Horndog" Butler had a history of questionable behavior with females while duty.

When you read what those reported situation were, you will wonder why LRPD did not fire him after the first incident back in 2015. Maybe sick, sketchy sexually abuse behavior is acceptable at the Little Rock Police Department and the city of Little Rock.

Officer Jason "Horndog" Butler got our attention back on April 15th when Mitch McCoy, a reporter with Fox16, aired a story about "Horndog".

McCoy reported that while on suspension and with nothing better to do, "Horndog" was trolling the city early one morning and claimed to find a juvenile female at a bus stop. "Horndog" identified himself to the juvenile as a police officer and subsequently took her back to his residence to spend the night as he was concerned about her safety.

 

Exactly how he identified himself as a LRPD officer is unclear, as an officer on suspension turns in their badge, LRPD ID card and weapon.

And an officer on suspension is no longer an officer - he/she cannot act in an official capacity; they are relieved from all duties as an LRPD officer.

An officer that acts as an officer when on suspension is also a serious problem.

Another sketchy detail is the bus stop. Rock Region Metro stops operating at around 9:00 PM and does not start at most locations until around 6:00 AM.

This is the narrative of from the police report:

The full report can be viewed by clicking here.

At the time this latest event with "Horndog" Butler occurred he was on a 14 day suspension for an event that happened back in 2017 where he was involved in "come-on" attempt to a married woman that called the police to report a domestic disturbance and he was one of the officers responded to the call.

The event in 2017 was where "Horndog" Butler had responded with Officer 

The complete LRPD Internal Investigation file for the 2017 incident can be viewed by clicking here.

You will not be surprised to find that that was not the first time Officer "Horndog" Butler was involved in extremely questionable behavior.

The first reported incident occurred back in 2015 and it involved Officer "Horndog" Butler inappropriately touching a female's genital area and sending text messages to her about the incident.

The complete LRPD Internal Investigation file for the 2015 incident can be view by clicking here.

Officer "Horndog" Butler only received a letter of reprimand for the 2015 incident because the victim did not cooperate with the police.

Was the victim threatened by Officer"Horndog" Butler or others? Was she paid off and encouraged to lay low?

She is not the only victim that is reluctant to cooperate with LRPD. LRPD has a trust issues with our citizens. 

LRPD conveniently forgot to include the MVR recording in which the victim of his unwanted touches asks him if he is supposed to be touching her vagina.

Officer "Horndog" Butler had this to say to investigators about the incident:

It is clear that Officer Jason "Horndog" Butler has a problem and has no place being a police officer and that LRPD dies not appear to be concerned about his actions toward females.

Their lack of transparency and refusing to provide all the documents involving Butler is yet another sign that changes are needed in leadership at LRPD.

 If anyone has been the victim of unwanted sexual advances by Officer Jason "Horndog" Butler please get in contact with us.

Stay tuned for updates. 

#TimeForChange #CleanOutLRCityHAll #MeToo

CITY OF LITTLE ROCK'S SELF-PROCLAIMED RESOLUTION THAT IT IS AN INTERNATIONAL COMPASSION CITY IS PURE HORSE HOCKEY

 

THE HOMELESS DON'T HAVE TO GO HOME, BUT THEY CAN'T CAMP HERE IN LITTLE ROCK

In August 2017, when Little Rock city leadership and the Little Rock Police Department were waging an all-out offensive against the homeless in the city and the organizations that help them, the Little Rock Board of directors passed a resolution proclaiming that Little Rock was an International City of Compassion.

This was poorly timed as a tourist in Arkansas from Italy had been murdered in Little Rock the previous month in the midst of one of the most violent years in the city's history and the offensive against the homeless was accelerating.

City leadership a few months earlier had tried to ban feeding the homeless by local church groups in public places. That proposed ordinance was tabled after a huge outcry by angry frustrated citizens.

Crusty City Director Dean Kumpuris made possible the most uncompassionate remark a city director has ever made.  The hateful old fart stated that "it was a mistake to think that just giving some people some food accomplished anything".  

After all, Dr. Kumpuris is a gastroenterologist and we are sure that he goes without meals quite often.

We challenge Kumpuris to live out in the rough for just a few days, and walking in the shoes of the city's homeless and  leaving his cash and credit cards at his hovel overlooking the Arkansas River and the Big Dam Bridge. We suspect that his opinion about eating some handout food will change.

We wonder how many times he has volunteered to feed homeless and look into their faces and see what difference "some food" makes. 

We doubt Dr. Kumpuris would have the balls to utter to the homeless what he did before the board. If he did, we suspect that "physician, heal thyself" would have a special meaning for him.

#TimeForChange #CleanOutLRCity Hall

LRPD CHIEF KENTON TREMAR BUCKNER BACKPEDALS ON PROVIDING INFORMATION ON REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE BY WELL-KNOWN ACTIVIST

LRPD CHIEF FLIP-FLOPS LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER ON LACK OF LRPD ACTIONS TO COMPLAINTS MADE BY REV. BENNY JOHNSON - ANOTHER FAILING MARK AGAINST HIM

On April 13th, we sent this email to Chief Kenton Tremar Buckner:

Kenton Tremar, or KT as we call him (as we are on a first-name basis now), fired off a quick response and directed one of his minions, Captain Max Spriggs to provide details of LRPD's actions (or lack of actions) to Rev. Johnson's calls for assistance.

CAPTAIN MAX "EAGLE EYES" SPRIGGS

 

Well, several days went by, then the weekend and no response was forthcoming from ole "Eagle Eyes".

 So we fired off an email asking what happened to the response.

KT sent us this in response. Notice how he has now backpedaled and is not willing to give a timely response.

You might ask why.  Well, it's more than likely that LRPD did little or nothing.

We do know that City Director Ken Richardson has gotten involved and so have so state legislators. 

How much longer do we have to tolerate Bucker, errr... Buckner as chief of police?

What does he have on city manager Bruce "Homewrecker" Moore? 

It is time to clean house at city hall and others in the media have recognized this as well.

#TimeForChange #CleanOutLRCityHall #ByeByeBuckner

MAYOR CAUGHT IN BIG LIE

At the April 17th Board of Directors meeting, last term mayor Mark Stodola stated he never accepted money for his campaign from the Chamber of Commerce or from a Political Action Committee ("PAC") affiliated with the Greater Little Rock Chamber. He even questioned if they had a PAC.

They do - Progress PAC - and they gave money to him and every other current member of the board of directors.

We suspect that tax payer funds the city has given the CoC for years was trickled its way back to Stodola and the other directors in the form of contributions from the PAC.

We will have all the details posted soon.  Stay tuned.

DIRECTOR DORIS WRIGHT USES SHAM EXCUSE OF "I FORGOT MY PASSWORD" TO TRY AND AVOID RESPONDING TO A FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST

CITY DIRECTOR DORIS WRIGHT - WILL DO ANYTHING TO AVOID RESPONDING TO A FOI REQUEST

For the past year, we have sent FOI requests to the city of Little Rock for emails of board members.

Each time our request included those of Ward 6 Director Doris Wright. Wright has used the personal email addresses and the response we receive is that she deletes her emails after opening and reading them and they have no records to produce. Right.

Wright uses those email addresses for city business and one is listed as the one for the West Central Community Center. 

As far as we can tell, Wright is the only City Director that uses their email as point of contact for a Community Center.

We were surprised and amused at the latest response from the city in regard to a recent request for copies of Wright's email correspondence. Look at what the response was.

Poor L. Lamor Williams is not the sharpest tool in the shed, or else he would not have repeated the ignorant, flimsy excuse given to him by Doris Wright.

Only fools like Wright and Williams would tell us such a thing. 

Any person of average intelligence knows how to recover or change an email password.  And if they didn't, they could Google it and find our how to easily and quickly do it.

We wonder if Wright is telling the truth about deleting emails as she frequently utters the phrase "I slept since then" at board meetings to cover her lack of recollection about something. 

How does she keep track of issues that constituents contact her about?

How does she follow up on promises she makes in emails?

We know one thing for certain about Wright, she began using a littlerock.gov email address after our publisher addressed the city board with concerns about city directors using personal email addresses for city business.

We exposed some of Wright's shenanigans dealing with the West Central Community Center in this post.

We have more about her coming soon. Stay tuned. 

#TimeForChange #CleanOutLRCityHall