The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette classified section on Sunday included a request for applications to serve as special counsel for the Little Rock Housing Authority, to handle an alleged claim of employment discrimination.

A copy on the LRHA website doesn’t give many details, other than that the special counsel will be “determining the factual and legal merits of a claim of alleged employment discrimination and reporting factual findings and legal conclusions” to the LRHA board of commissioners.

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The request doesn’t specificy whether the alleged discrimination is related to race, sex, religion or national origin.

A call to the LRHA for more information was returned by Edward Armstrong, an attorney with the firm of Wright, Lindsey and Jennings, which represents the LRHA.

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Armstrong said that because the claim to be investigated involves a personnel matter, he couldn’t speak on the actual incident.

He said the LRHA has decided to seek an outside counsel because the claim involves what might be a perceived as a conflict of interest if handled by in-house counsel.

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