Arkansas Code Title 11. Labor and Industrial Relations § 11-2-205. Production of confidential records

(a) No officer, employee, former employee, or other person officially connected or formerly officially connected to the Arkansas Mediation and Conciliation Service shall produce or present any confidential records of the service or testify in behalf of any party to any cause pending in any arbitration or other proceedings or court or before any board, commission, committee, tribunal, investigatory body, or administrative agency of the United States or of any state, territory, the District of Columbia, or the state or any municipality or political subdivision thereof with respect to facts or other matters coming to his or her knowledge in his or her official capacity, whether in answer to an order, subpoena duces tecum, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the representatives of both parties to the dispute.

(c) In the event that the court insists that the mediator testify or produce documents, the staff attorneys of the department shall be further instructed to take immediate steps to procure the release of the mediator pending an appeal from the court's decision.