Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin discusses what he described as unsafe loitering at a press conference on July 10, 2025. Displayed on the screen is a picture of the grass median just west of the intersection between Chenal Parkway and Markham Street in Little Rock. (Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin criticized municipalities for not doing more to curb what he characterized as unsafe loitering during a press conference Thursday.
Griffin called on city and county officials to do more to enforce Act 255 of 2023, an anti-loitering law that replaced a law targeting panhandlers that was struck down by a federal judge in 2020 for violating the First Amendment…