[3] In 2017, Stubblefield introduced legislation to weaken the state's freedom of information (FOI) act by precluding the public release of information about K-12 schools, colleges and university campus police departments, and the Arkansas State Capitol police force.
[4] Critics such as the Arkansas Press Association decried Stubblefield's proposal for its potential to enable secret police.
At a Senate committee hearing, Stubblefield said that "Every morning when I wake up and turn on the national news, sometimes I ask myself a question: 'Am I still in the United States of America?
"[11][12] In 2021, Stubblefield sponsored nullification legislation that would have banned Arkansas state and local police from enforcing federal gun laws, and threatened to impose criminal liability on state and local officers for assisting in enforcing federal gun laws.
Similar "nullification" laws have been held by the courts to be unconstitutional, and opponents charged that the passage of the bill would break down federal-state cooperation and endanger public safety.