LRPD identifies a confidential informant and provides Social Security Numbers of a witness and some LRPD cops in a response to a Freedom of Information request

by Russ Racop

Lt. Michael "Lil' Bang" Ford, Jr. - Supervisor of the LRPD FOI Unit

 

In a response to a Freedom of Information request we made to the Little Rock Police Department for a Internal Affairs investigation file, the LRPD FOI Unit not only failed to protect the identity of a Confidential Informant ("CI"), they provided the Social Security Numbers of a witness, a former LRPD cop and two current LRPD cops.

The Arkansas Attorney General has long opined that the personally identifiable information LRPD released to us is in fact exempt from release.

 

So when we found that the Internal Affairs Investigation file we requested revealed the identity of a confidential information that had worked with LRPD and the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office we were shocked.

 

One of the documents listed the Social Security Number of a witness. 

NOTE: We placed a green rectangle over the Driver's License number and SSN of the witness. On the document LRPD provided they were clearly visible.

 

The documents included on that displayed  the SSN of a disgraced, former LRPD cop Tina Moore.

They also leaked the SSN of two current LRPD cops - Clark Sheffield (one of the cops on the LRPD Liar's List) and Eric Hedgecock. Additionally LRPD leaked that both cops had been orally reprimanded for departmental violations. 

Disciplinary actions that do not result in a suspension or termination are not subject to release under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

We can't be certain if proving us with these confidential records was intentional or inadvertently released due to incompetence. 

We asked the mayor, police chief, city attorney and the two cops for comments about the release of these records. No one responded.

We will introduce you to the members of the LRPD FOI Unit in an upcoming post.

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***UPDATE- 06/19/21***

Apparently LRPD does not make notifications to their employees when they for whatever reason release exempt information in a FOI response.

We provided notification to the city and LRPD of the release of exempt information. We requested copies of the notification sent to the individuals that had their exempt information provided to us.

LRPD said they had no records to provide. That means they did not apprise these individual that they had given us their SSN's.

 

Then on Friday June 18th, we got a call from Lt. Michael "Lil' Bang" Ford.  He wanted to know which of their FOI responses contained that SSN information.   

We suspect he asked so that they can "discipline" the employee that provided the SSN's.

We also told him that we had been provided personal email addresses of several LRPD cops in another of their FOI responses. 

Their bucket has a hole in it at the LRPD FOI Unit. Wait until you see the post about the individuals that are assigned to that unit.

City employee says her name is "confidential"

A city of Little Rock employee told a citizen that her name was "confidential".

We did some sleuthing and discovered the "confidential" name of the public employee. It's Amy L. Sinks. 

Sinks is employed as a Court Administrator at the Little Rock District Court, 3rd Division, Environmental and Small Claims. The Judge elected for that seat is Mark Leverett.

From other public records we located it appears that Sinks was once a probation officer for the Little Rock District Court, 2nd Division.

We also used readily available public resources to gather more public information about this "confidential"public employee.   

Sinks is registered to vote as a Republican.

 

She and her husband own a home in West Little Rock.

So much for "confidentiality".

 

Sneak Peak - LRPD Undercover Cops Revealed

LRFD twits play chicken and destroy two fire trucks that will cost $1,400,000.00 to replace

LRFD employees Phillip Prater and Casey Reep were the demolition derby drivers

 

Russ Racop - May 25, 2021

 

On Thursday, May 20th, two Little Rock Fire Department apparatus (the work LRFD prefers to use for a fire truck) slammed into each other at the intersection of University and 28th Street.

Six firefighters were taken to the hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. 

A LRFD spokesman said the engines were responding to the same call on Broadmoor Drive that came in at 4:24 p.m., but he would not give any other information about the call.

According to a witness, one firefighter was trapped inside of one of the trucks for a few minutes. That firefighter was not identified.

Details of the accident are laid out in the accident report. 

The city refused to provide the names of the two LRFD firemen driving the trucks, saying they were subjects of an investigation.

 

We did not let that slow us down. We went to straight to LRPD and obtained a copy of the accident report via an in-person Freedom of Information request and took photos of the report pursuant to Motal vs. City of Little Rock, 2020 Ark. App. 308.

The driver of the truck that struck the other was Phillip Prater.

 

LRFD firefighter Phillip Prater - Driver of truck 2 that ran into the other truck

Prater has a history of some disciplinary actions at LRFD. More on that in another post.

The driver of the other LRFD truck was Casey Reep. More about Reep in that upcoming post.

LRFD firefighter Casey Reep - Driver of truck 1

The accident report indicate that Prater appears to have gone through a red light and hit the truck Reep was driving.

A LRFD employee told use that it would cost from $600,000 to $700,000 to replace each truck.

At a recent city Board of Directors meeting LRFD Chief Delphone Hubbard told board members that his department needed to replace around six fire trucks.

It looks that the number of trucks needing replacement has gone up to eight.

 

 

LRPD cop Rashud Willams runs over man

Russ Racop - May 23, 2021

 

LRPD cop Rashud Williams hit an elderly black man while heading West on 12th Street just blocks from the LRPD 12th Street Substation. 

Witnesses report he was traveling faster than the speed limit without emergency lights or siren when he stuck the yet to be identified man. They also report he just stood by with a glazed look on his face.

LRFD responded to render aid to the victim but onlookers became concerned when it took longer than normal for a MEMS ambulance to arrive. 

A yet to be identified LRFD fireman told the onlookers that MEMS wouldn't respond with them at the scene.

Stay tuned as we have requested the videos.

 

***UPDATE***

 

 

Did Dennis Rainey, follower of Jesus Christ and co-founder of FamilyLife, pay his disciples to cut down 100 trees from government owned land to improve his view of Lake Maumelle?

If trees are in your way - pay not pray to get them out of the way

 

Russ Racop - May 22, 2021

 

According to a report filed with the Pulaski County Sheriff's office on May 14th, Dennis Rainey hired six men to clear trees on property he did not own. The trees were on land owned by Central Arkansas Water.

 Rainey's home is located at 20325 Spillway Road.

 

The land were the trees were cut sits between his property and the Lake Maumelle, a water reservoir for the City of Little Rock.

 KARK has this video posted on YouTube about the criminal act.

 

Raven Lawson - Central Arkansas Water

 

Raven Lawson, Watershed Protection Manager with Central Arkansas Water, stated that “We don’t take things like this lightly. The tops of the trees look like something out of the Lorax,” said Raven Lawson with Central Arkansas Water.

 

The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and published in 1971. It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, who "speaks for the trees" and confronts the Once-ler, who causes environmental destruction. 

Lawson says she has received around 50 emails and dozens of phone calls from hikers upset about damage.

She says after further evaluation, they believe 100 trees were either cut down illegally or had the tops of them shaved off because the homeowner wanted to view Lake Maumelle which was blocked by the trees.

“The view to the lake could definitely be increased– the view to Pinnacle mountain could be increased… there’s definitely a lot of nature that could produce million dollar views out here,” said Lawson.

They believe most of the trees will die, and the ones that did not will take years to grow back.

Apparently Rainey is an author and has been involved in some religious organizations. One thing for certain is that he is not an environmentalist. 

The self-entitled prick Dennis Rainey is like the Once-ler in the Dr. Seuss book and the Pharisee in this verse:

Luke 18:9-14

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...

We hope they throw the book at him.