# About This Wiki > [[Home]] · [[Research Map]] · [[How to Read This Wiki]] · [[License]] ## What this is This is a **public-records investigation compiled and reviewed by Joshua Dunlap** from Arkansas Freedom of Information Act productions documenting Arkansas state, municipal, and county law-enforcement agencies' adoption of, contracting with, trialing of, and data-sharing arrangements around automatic-license-plate-reader (ALPR) systems and adjacent surveillance technology — in-car and body-worn video, evidence-cloud platforms, real-time crime centers, mobile forensics, and the federal- and state-level data-sharing networks those systems plug into. The investigation began with [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — the first ALPR vendor surfaced in the corpus, and the project's original namesake (the wiki was renamed from *Arkansas Flock* to *Arkansas Surveillance* in June 2026 to match the documentary reality of a multi-vendor, multi-modality surveillance ecosystem) — and now also documents [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]], [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]] / [[ELSAG ALPR Systems]], [[Motorola Solutions]], [[Genetec, Inc.]], [[Cellebrite]], and others as the corpus expands jurisdiction by jurisdiction. The wiki's investigative spine is the question of what was procured, with what authorization, under what data-sharing terms, and with what oversight. Procurement pathways recur across jurisdictions (asset-forfeiture funding outside competitive bidding); so do data-sharing arrangements (out-of-state law-enforcement reciprocity, private-business participation in the network); so does the audit and oversight question (whether agencies meaningfully review the searches their officers run). The wiki does **not** purport to be a complete history of Arkansas surveillance policy. It is bounded by what Arkansas agencies produced under FOIA in response to public-records requests filed by Joshua Dunlap. ## Status As of 2026-07-21, **seventeen production or supplemental-release packages** have been reviewed and integrated. The sixteen packages through July 20 were followed by the first Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney / Arkansas Crime Information Network public-media batch. The corpus connects municipal, county, and state procurement and operation with ELSAG/HIDTA, the Arkansas State Fusion Center, ATLAS, Flock, Motorola LPR, ACIC, ARDOT/AHP rulemaking, Sherwood permitting and alert verification, and ACIN's public description of its statewide incident-data initiative. See [[Home]] for the current roster and findings. ## Evidentiary standard **Wiki pages are useful for navigation, synthesis, and pattern recognition, but they are never primary evidence.** Claims about Arkansas-agency conduct trace to a Tier-1 FOIA record — typically an email, PDF, audit-log export, spreadsheet, or report — with file path, location, and, where present, a verbatim quote. Public technical, legal, and contextual claims instead cite a tier-labeled local web-archive extract. The wiki layer compresses and cross-references; it does not replace either class of evidence. If a wiki page conflicts with a raw source, **the raw source wins.** The wiki page gets corrected. ## Editorial posture The wiki demarcates three kinds of text, kept textually distinct: - **Direct quotation** from public records (rendered in `[!evidence]` callout blocks with raw-source anchors) - **Factual summary** of records (each claim source-anchored to file path, location, and verbatim quote) - **Synthesis and opinion** — the author's own analytical work, offered in furtherance of public discourse on matters of public concern, grounded in the underlying evidence Every factual claim is traceable to its cited FOIA record or archived public source. Opinion and synthesis are demarcated and identified as the author's own. ## Source provenance The corpus is built primarily from Arkansas state, municipal, and county-agency FOIA productions, supplemented where necessary by tier-labeled web-archive sources (statute text, court opinions, vendor SEC filings, established news coverage, and advocacy analysis). The web-archive layer never establishes what an Arkansas agency did — it contextualizes claims grounded in the FOIA corpus. There are no commercially-licensed datasets in the corpus, no scraped content of arbitrary provenance, and no third-party-database queries. Productions arrive through ordinary FOIA channels (typically OneDrive transmittals via the JustFOIA platform). ## What's excluded from the public site The public site includes the wiki layer and the local Markdown extracts for cited web sources. The following are **not** part of the intended publication set: - The raw FOIA productions (`raw/`) - The extracted-text intermediates (`extracted/`) - Maintenance plans, activity logs, handoff material, and scratch-work directories - Repository operating instructions and application configuration - Requester identification, private credentials, and other non-evidentiary personal material If you want to verify a claim that traces to a specific document, request the document from the agency that produced it. These are Arkansas public records. ## Surveillance-data handling The corpus includes operational surveillance data — audit logs, hot-list memberships, network-sharing configurations, and deployment locations. Exact fixed-camera coordinates, site/device identifiers, corridors, and travel directions are intentionally published when a Tier-1 record supplies them; see the interactive [[Research Map]], [[Arkansas Camera Map Data]], and [[Arkansas ALPR Camera Coordinates and Directional Nomenclature]]. They are treated as facts about public surveillance infrastructure, with proposal, plan, permit, GIS, installation, inventory, historical, and variant states kept distinct. The wiki does not republish unrelated personal information such as license-plate scans, civilian names/contact details, unrelated residential locator addresses, signatures, personal device identifiers, or requester ID, and it does not reverse-engineer redactions. ## How this wiki is built The wiki is a human-directed public-records investigation. Joshua Dunlap directs and reviews the research, analysis, and publication. Software and AI tools assist with document extraction, organization, cross-referencing, drafting, and consistency checks. They are not treated as evidence. Substantive claims are checked against cited FOIA records or archived public sources, and any conflict is resolved in favor of the underlying record. Publication checks cover page metadata, links, citation paths, archive integrity, dependency declarations, and privacy-sensitive strings. A clean check means the publication surface is internally consistent; it does not elevate the wiki above the cited evidence. ## Naming and accuracy Names that appear in agency correspondence are sometimes transcribed inconsistently (variant spellings, signature blocks with different formal/informal forms). The wiki uses the most-current canonical form on entity pages and tracks variants in the underlying source-page evidence. Errors found during review are corrected against the raw production. ## About the compiler The wiki is compiled by **Joshua Dunlap**, an Arkansas citizen FOIA requester. The work is part of broader public-records-grounded accountability research on Arkansas surveillance and policing infrastructure. The wiki documents what Arkansas agencies produced in response to public-records requests; it does not draw on confidential sources, private leaks, or non-public materials. ## Citation format For the wiki: > Joshua Dunlap, *Arkansas Surveillance Wiki*, [URL], accessed YYYY-MM-DD. For citation of the underlying primary evidence, cite the raw record directly: "[Agency name], FOIA production [request number], [date]." ## License and copyright The author's analytical work in this wiki — synthesis essays, entity analyses, source-page summaries, schema, and editorial compilation choices — is © 2026 Joshua Dunlap, licensed under **CC BY-NC-SA 4.0**. Code in the repository (`publish.js`, `publish.css`, Python tools) is licensed separately under the **MIT License**. No copyright claim is asserted over the underlying records produced by Arkansas state and local public bodies. See [[License]] for full terms, citation format, commercial-use information, and the load-bearing editorial-posture statement. ## Contact and corrections Questions, concerns, source inquiries, and corrections supported by primary documentary evidence are welcome at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).