The lawyer for an anonymous whistleblower has renewed his client's claim that Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders altered and withheld public records in connection to her office's spending habits. Attorney Tom Mars, in a letter sent to state Sen. Jimmy Hickey, provided client testimony and supporting documents for a request for a legislative audit. Hickey last month asked the Legislative Joint Auditing Committee to investigate the purchase of a $19,000 lectern by Sanders' office. He also asked the committee to scrutinize the "retroactive shielding of several government records after Sanders signed additional Freedom of Information Act exemptions into law this month after a special legislative session," according to The Arkansas Advocate. "I have seen a copy of the letter you sent to Sen. Wallace and Rep. Gazaway, Chairpersons of the Legislative Joint Audit Committee," Mars wrote, "requesting an audit of the following matters: (1) the purchase of a podium or lectern from Beckett Events LLC for the use of the Governor's Office; and (2) all matters, involving the Governor or the Governor's Office, made confidential by Section 4(a) of Act 7 of the First Extraordinary Session of 2023."

"Does item (2) in your request encompass any documents that were: (a) altered by the Governor's Office before being produced in response to a request for copies of public records made pursuant to the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") and (b) non-exempt documents that were knowingly...

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