# About This Wiki > [[Home]] · [[How to Read This Wiki]] · [[License]] ## What this is This is an **LLM-maintained public-records wiki** built 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 2026-06-05, **nine FOIA productions across six jurisdictions** have been ingested or are mid-ingest: Conway PD (`PD-2026-354` and `PD-2026-477`), City of Conway (`FOIA-2026-125` City Clerk and `FOIA-2026-127` Mayor's Office), Fayetteville PD (`PD-2026-1484`), Pulaski County SO (`#26-808`), City of Little Rock (`CLR-2026-778`, the LRPD surveillance procurement file), Pulaski County Government (`#26-365`), and Arkansas State Police (`2026-06-05 batch 1`, the first state-LE-agency production). The cross-jurisdiction synthesis layer documents recurring patterns: [[ALPR Procurement Below the Appropriation Line]], [[Default-On Surveillance Data Sharing as Operational Model]], [[Vendor Capture of Local Surveillance Policy]], [[Federal LE Quiet Access through Vendor Platforms]], [[The Disclosure-Posture Reversal at Conway PD]], [[The Genetec-to-Flock Pre-Flock Transition]], and [[Competing ALPR Vendors and the Real-Time Crime Center]]. See [[Home]] for the current production roster. Future productions from other Arkansas jurisdictions will be added under `raw/<jurisdiction>/<production>/` as they arrive. ## Evidentiary standard **Wiki pages are LLM-compiled artifacts. They are useful for navigation, synthesis, and pattern recognition, but they are NEVER citeable as primary evidence.** Every factual claim on every wiki page traces to a raw source document — typically a `.msg` email, a `.pdf` attachment, a `.csv` audit log, or a `.docx` report — with file path, location, and (where present) a verbatim quote. The wiki layer compresses and cross-references; it does not replace the underlying records. 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 a raw FOIA source within two hops. Opinion and synthesis are demarcated and identified as the author's own. ## Source provenance The corpus is built exclusively 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, advocacy analyses from organizations like the ACLU and EFF). 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 only. The following are **not** published: - The raw FOIA productions (`raw/`) - The extracted-text intermediates (`extracted/`) - The append-only activity log (`log.md`) - The schema and operator guide for the LLM maintainer (`AGENTS.md`) - The phase scratch-work directories (`_phase*_workdir/`) - The investigation plan (`PLAN.md`) - The Obsidian application config (`.obsidian/`) 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, deployment locations. The wiki does not republish PII redacted in the raw production (officer personal info, license-plate scans, residential addresses, etc.). Where redactions appear in raw documents, source pages note the redaction and its placement, but the wiki does not attempt to reverse-engineer redacted content. ## How this wiki is built The wiki follows Andrej Karpathy's "LLM Wiki" pattern (https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f): the wiki sits between the reader and the FOIA productions, serving as a navigation and synthesis surface while preserving a strict citation chain back to the original documents. The schema and operator instructions for the LLM maintainer live in the `AGENTS.md` file at the repository root and are not published on this public site. The maintainer (Joshua Dunlap) reviews each phase's output and corrects errors that surface during query operations or lint sweeps. ## 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 that surface during query operations or lint sweeps 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/). Code in the repository (`publish.js`, `publish.css`, Python pipeline tools) is licensed separately under the **MIT License**. The underlying FOIA records are public records of the State of Arkansas; no copyright claim is asserted over them. See [[License]] for full terms, citation format, commercial-use information, and the load-bearing editorial-posture statement. ## Contact and corrections Corrections supported by primary documentary evidence are welcome at [email protected]. General contact: [email protected].