Cowboys trips given to North Little Rock police officers skirt law, says complaint
A gift of free tickets, travel and hotel expenses for uniformed North Little Rock police officers to attend a Dallas Cowboys football game has prompted a citizen's complaint to the Arkansas Ethics Commission.
Cowboys owner and General Manager Jerry Jones, who grew up in North Little Rock, made the offer last month for officers and their families to attend any of the team's remaining five home games at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The first available game was Sunday night.
More than 100 of the department's 179 uniformed officers are expected to attend one of the games.
Russ Racop of Little Rock, a local blogger who writes about topics including "bad government," filed the ethics complaint Wednesday. The complaint names Mayor Joe Smith; the eight North Little Rock aldermen; Michael Gibbons, president of the North Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 5; and Jones.
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