Employer not to penalize employee's political activity.
Ark. Code Ann. § 21-1-503
in effect(a) A public employee shall not be prohibited from communicating with an elected public official concerning a matter related to the public employee's job, except for a matter exempted under § 25-19-105.
(b) A public employee shall not be prohibited from exercising a right or privilege under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq.
(c)(1) It shall be unlawful for any public employer to discipline, to threaten to discipline, to reprimand either orally or in writing, to place any notation in a public employee's personnel file disciplining or reprimanding the public employee, or to otherwise discriminate against a public employee because the public employee exercised the right to communicate with an elected public official or exercised a right or privilege under the Freedom of Information Act of 1967, § 25-19-101 et seq., as granted under this subchapter.
(2) A public employer shall not be prohibited from disciplining a public employee who has intentionally made an untrue allegation to an elected public official concerning a matter related to the public employee's job.
(d) Any person willfully violating a provision of this subchapter shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
Source: Public.Resource.Org / UniCourt, Official Code of Arkansas Annotated, Release 78 (2020) (unicourt.github.io/cic-code-ar)URL: https://unicourt.github.io/cic-code-ar/transforms/ar/ocar/r78/gov.ar.code.title.21.htmlFetched: 11/8/2026