TO AMEND THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT OF 1967; AND TO REPEAL THE EXEMPTION CONCERNING ELECTRONIC DATA INFORMATION MAINTAINED BY A DISASTER RECOVERY SYSTEM.

SB 506 proposed to amend the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act of 1967. The bill aimed to repeal a specific exemption that allowed government entities to withhold electronic data maintained by a disaster recovery system from public access. If enacted, this change would have made such electronic data subject to public records requests, directly affecting how government agencies manage and disclose their backup electronic information. This would have increased the types of government information accessible to the public under the FOIA.