State-car policy is strict … or not

Finding out how many vehicles the state owns, who uses them and for what is a complicated and confusing process, perhaps beyond achieving.

The state Department of Finance and Administration, headed by Richard Weiss, longtime aide to a string of governors, keeps track of most of the vehicles the state owns.

But even with Weiss answering question after question from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette throughout last week and digging out facts and figures, the quest for precision became like a hall of mirrors.

At the start, it was simple. The state owns 8,653 vehicles, Weiss said.

And the policy on their use is for-official-business only, as he put it unequivocally: “No one is authorized to use state vehicles for anything …

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