# Arkansas Code § 12-12-1804 (2024) — Protections > *Verbatim extract of Arkansas Code Annotated § 12-12-1804, the data-protection section of the Automatic License Plate Reader System Act (Title 12, Subtitle 2, Chapter 12, Subchapter 18), as reproduced by FindLaw from the Arkansas Code. This section states the 150-day retention ceiling and the restriction on selling, trading, or exchanging captured plate data.* ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** FindLaw (Thomson Reuters), reproducing the Arkansas Code. - **URL:** https://codes.findlaw.com/ar/title-12-law-enforcement-emergency-management-and-military-affairs/ar-code-sect-12-12-1804.html - **Placement:** Title 12 → Subtitle 2 → Chapter 12 → Subchapter 18 (Use of Automatic License Plate Reader Systems). - **Archived:** 2026-05-22, retrieved in a browser (Playwright) and saved as a print-to-PDF capture of the FindLaw page. See `ark-code-12-12-1801.md` for the retrieval-method note. - **Wayback snapshot:** https://web.archive.org/web/20260606050355/https://codes.findlaw.com/ar/title-12-law-enforcement-emergency-management-and-military-affairs/ar-code-sect-12-12-1804.html — Save Page Now succeeded on the 2026-06-06 retry (the 2026-05-22 attempt failed when the connection closed before the crawl completed). ## Extract **12-12-1804. Protections.** (a) Captured plate data obtained for the purposes described under § 12-12-1803(b) shall not be used or shared for any other purpose and shall not be preserved for more than one hundred fifty (150) days. (b) Captured plate data obtained by an entity under § 12-12-1803(b)(1) may be retained as part of an ongoing investigation and shall be destroyed at the conclusion of either: (1) An investigation that does not result in any criminal charges being filed; or (2) Any criminal action undertaken in the matter involving the captured plate data. (c) A governmental entity that uses an automatic license plate reader system under § 12-12-1803(b)(1) shall update the captured plate data collected under this subchapter every twenty-four (24) hours if updates are available. (d)(1) Except as provided under subdivision (d)(2) of this section, a governmental entity authorized to use an automatic license plate reader system under § 12-12-1803(b) shall not sell, trade, or exchange captured plate data for any purpose. (2) Captured plate data obtained by a law enforcement agency under § 12-12-1803(b)(1) that indicates evidence of an offense may be shared with other law enforcement agencies. ## Notes - **Tier 2 — primary public record.** Codified text of an Arkansas statute; see `ark-code-12-12-1801.md` for the source-tier and currency rationale. - **Currency.** FindLaw states this section is current as of March 28, 2024. - **Investigative relevance.** Subsection (a) sets the 150-day retention ceiling on captured plate data; subdivision (d)(1) bars a governmental entity from selling, trading, or exchanging captured plate data "for any purpose," and subdivision (d)(2) permits sharing with other law-enforcement agencies only where the data "indicates evidence of an offense." Read against the Conway PD `PD-2026-354` corpus — a 1,384-organization sharing topology, default-on, with no per-query offense gate documented — this section is a primary measuring stick for the investigation. - **Cited by:** see the `citing_pages:` frontmatter above.