A lawsuit was filed Thursday against former Gov. Mike Huckabee that accuses the Republican presidential hopeful of breaking state law when his administration destroyed government-owned hard drives as he left office in January.

Jim Parsons of Bella Vista filed the lawsuit in Pulaski County Circuit Court accusing Huckabee of violating the state’s Freedom of Information Act and a state law prohibiting damaging a computer without authorization.

The state’s Ethics Commission has previously dismissed two complaints that Parsons, a self-described “gadfly,” has filed against Huckabee over the hard drives’ destruction.

The lawsuit, described in the filing as a “citizen complaint,” asks the court to “send a message that destroying public records is not the standard operating procedure” of elected officials when they leave office.

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