D. How is e-mail treated?

Because a public record is defined to include “electronic or computer-based information,” Ark. Code Ann. § 25-19-103(5)(A), the FOIA reaches electronic mail. Ark. Op. Att’y Gen. No. 2001-305. This was also the case prior to the 2001 amendment revising the definition to include this information, because the act reached “data compilations in any form.” See Ark. Op. Att’y Gen. Nos. 2000-096, 99-018 (electronically stored e-mail is public record).