Accountability is Not Optional
Every dollar spent. Every vote cast. Every contract awarded. Every closed door meeting. In Sharp County, these things affect your roads, your schools, your taxes, and your daily life.
The Public Record is watching — so you don’t have to do it alone.
Our volunteer team attends public meetings, files records requests, reviews budgets, and follows the money so Sharp County residents stay informed about how their government is operating and whether it’s operating in their best interest.
What We Watch
The Sharp County Quorum Court, municipal governments, school boards, sheriff and law enforcement spending, county contracts and vendor relationships, property tax assessments and collections, and local election administration.
How We Report
We deal in facts. Every story we publish is sourced, documented, and verified. We don’t do rumor. We don’t do personal attacks. We follow the paper trail and let the record speak for itself.
Got a Tip?
If something doesn’t look right in Sharp County government, we want to know about it. Tips can be submitted anonymously through our contact page. Every tip is reviewed seriously and confidentially.
The people of Sharp County deserve a government that works for them. We’re here to make sure it does.
A.C.A. § 14-14-1202(a). Ethics for county government officers and employees.
(a) PUBLIC TRUST.
(1) The holding of public office or employment is a public trust created by the confidence
which the electorate reposes in the integrity of officers and employees of county
government.
(2) An officer or employee shall carry out all duties assigned by law for the benefit of
the people of the county.
(3) The officer or employee may not use his or her office, the influence created by his or
her official position, or information gained by virtue of his or her position to advance
his or her individual personal economic interest or that of an immediate member of
his/her family or an associate, other than advancing strictly incidental benefits as may
accrue to any of them from the enactment or administration of law affecting the
public generally.
The Public Record 