# Research Map
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This is the public route into the investigation. It highlights the strongest entry points in each page class; the site search and file explorer expose the complete set of pages. For the current production roster and top-line findings, begin at [[Home]].
## Start with the investigation's major questions
- **Where are fixed ALPR cameras, and what do they face?** [[Arkansas ALPR Camera Coordinates and Directional Nomenclature]] publishes the exact coordinates, site and device identifiers, corridors, and travel directions supported by the records while preserving proposal, permit, GIS, installation, and as-built distinctions.
- **How are surveillance systems bought?** [[ALPR Procurement Below the Appropriation Line]], [[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle]], [[Competitive RFP Procurement (Arkansas Counties)]], [[Asset-Forfeiture Funding for Surveillance Procurement]], and [[ARPA Pass-Through Funding (Arkansas)]].
- **How does plate data move across institutional boundaries?** [[Default-On Surveillance Data Sharing as Operational Model]], [[Federal LE Quiet Access through Vendor Platforms]], [[HIDTA LPR Network]], and [[Decentralized Acquisition and Centralized Surveillance Interoperability]].
- **What do accuracy and alert verification mean in practice?** [[ALPR Error Layers and Outcome Measurement]], [[ALPR Alert Verification]], and [[2026-02 Sherwood ALPR Misread Stop]].
- **What does current law actually establish?** [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]], [[ALPR Fourth Amendment Law Is Fact-Bound and Unsettled]], and [[Arkansas FOIA Electronic Records and Vendor Custody]].
- **What public technical claims remain model- or version-specific?** [[Flock Hardware Evidence Boundaries]], [[Vendor Information Security Posture]], [[Flock Condor Video and Wing Gateways]], and [[Flock Search and Association Analytics]].
## People
People pages identify officials, agency personnel, procurement staff, and vendor representatives only to the extent their documented roles matter to the investigation. Useful starting points include:
- [[Dennis Overton]] — Arkansas State Police ALPR program and statewide coordination record.
- [[Lt. Andrew Burningham|Andrew Burningham]] — Conway Police Department Flock administration.
- [[Chris Harris]] — Conway Police Department procurement and policy decisions.
- [[Ryan Roach]] — Arkansas State Police FOIA routing and disclosure positions.
- [[Michelle Davenport]] — ARDOT legal review and LPR rule drafting.
- [[Cody Boudreaux]] — Flock permitting coordination in the Sherwood files.
- [[Seth Kinkade]] and [[Joseph Lackey]] — officers documented in the Sherwood alert-based stop.
## Organizations
- Arkansas public bodies: [[Arkansas State Police]], [[Arkansas Department of Transportation]], [[Arkansas Highway Police]], [[Arkansas State Fusion Center]], [[Conway Police Department]], [[Fayetteville Police Department]], [[Little Rock Police Department]], [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]], and [[Sherwood Police Department]].
- Surveillance vendors and platforms: [[Flock Safety, Inc.]], [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]], [[ELSAG ALPR Systems]], [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]], [[Motorola Solutions]], [[Genetec, Inc.]], [[Cellebrite]], [[NICE Systems]], [[Fusus]], and [[SoundThinking]].
- Sharing and procurement infrastructure: [[HIDTA LPR Network]], [[Houston HIDTA]], [[Arkansas Crime Information Center]], [[OMNIA Partners]], and [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)]].
## Concepts
- Core systems: [[Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)]], [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]], [[Flock Audit Logs and Retention]], [[Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC)]], [[Digital Evidence Management Cloud]], and [[Mobile Device Forensic Extraction]].
- Governance and procurement: [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]], [[ARDOT Right-of-Way Camera Permitting]], [[Sole-Source Procurement Language Avoidance]], [[Competitive-Bid Exemption (Sole-Source Procurement)]], and [[Vendor Platform Lock-In and the Flock-Axon API Dispute]].
- Public technical context: [[Flock Hardware Evidence Boundaries]], [[Flock Condor Video and Wing Gateways]], [[Flock Audio Detection and Raven]], [[Flock Search and Association Analytics]], [[Flock Alpha and DJI Dock 3]], and [[SignalTrace Electronic-Signature Tracking]].
## Events
The event layer supplies the chronology. Strong entry points include:
- [[2024-12 Flock LPR Cameras Cut from 2025 Budget]] and [[2025-01 Conway City Council Authorizes Flock Purchase (Ordinance O-25-09)]].
- [[2025-12 Fayetteville Mayor Signs Axon ALPR Trial Agreement]].
- [[2026-06 Little Rock PD PDFOI-2026-1874 FOIA Response]].
- [[2025-01-17 Overton Designates Arkansas ALPR Point of Contact]] and [[2025-05 ASP–Houston HIDTA MOU and ELSAG Domain Setup]].
- [[2026-02 Sherwood ALPR Misread Stop]], [[2026-03 Sherwood ALPR Policy Takes Effect]], and [[2026-04 Sherwood Work-Complete Email Attaches Different Permit]].
- [[2026-05 ARDOT LPR Rules Hearing]], [[2026-07-08 ARDOT Revises LPR Rules After Public Comment]], and [[2026-07-10 ARDOT Releases Omitted LPR Rulemaking Records]].
## Sources
Source pages are guides to the underlying FOIA records; they summarize contents, preserve filenames and locations, quote material passages, and route the reader to related entities and analysis. The complete production roster is on [[Home|the Home page]]. Particularly important source guides include:
- [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] and [[Federal Searches CSV]] — Conway sharing and federal-query exports.
- [[Flock Safety Order Form and Contract]] and [[Morning - Procurement Pivot Thread]] — Conway contract and funding pivot.
- [[Axon Field Trial Agreement and City Authorization]] — Fayetteville's trial authority.
- [[Flock LPR Renewal (Resolution 16846)]] and [[NICE Investigate (MRA and Order 00479378)]] — Little Rock procurement records.
- [[Term Contract 4600055190 and PO 4502235324 — Initial Leonardo ELSAG Buy]] and [[Cross-Network Analyst Access and the Arkansas State Fusion Center]] — ASP procurement and access architecture.
- [[Statewide Traffic Control Devices Export]], [[Sherwood Flock Camera Locations]], and [[Sherwood Incident and CAD Records]] — location, permitting, and misread-stop records.
## Synthesis
- [[Decentralized Acquisition and Centralized Surveillance Interoperability]]
- [[ALPR Procurement Below the Appropriation Line]]
- [[Competing ALPR Vendors and the Real-Time Crime Center]]
- [[Default-On Surveillance Data Sharing as Operational Model]]
- [[Federal LE Quiet Access through Vendor Platforms]]
- [[Vendor Capture of Local Surveillance Policy]]
- [[Vendor-Imposed Secrecy as Procurement Routine]]
- [[The Disclosure-Posture Reversal at Conway PD]]
- [[The Genetec-to-Flock Pre-Flock Transition]]
- [[The Surveillance-Export Economy in Arkansas Law Enforcement]]
- [[ALPR Error Layers and Outcome Measurement]]
- [[ALPR Fourth Amendment Law Is Fact-Bound and Unsettled]]
- [[Sherwood ALPR Permitting and Operational Status]]
- [[Arkansas ALPR Camera Coordinates and Directional Nomenclature]]
## Tensions
Tensions preserve contradictions, competing framings, and unresolved record conflicts instead of silently flattening them:
- [[T001 - Default-On Sharing Policy or Product Design]]
- [[T002 - Successor-Policy Omission]]
- [[T003 - Vendor-Imposed Secrecy or Procurement Boilerplate]]
- [[T004 - Item-3 No-Records vs Deconfliction Audit Trail]]
- [[T005 - Thirty New Cameras vs Renewal-Only]]
- [[T006 - ASP ALPR Oversight Disclaimer vs Statewide Coordination Role]]
- [[T007 - ASP No-LPR-System Position vs Documented ELSAG Operation]]
- [[T008 - Post-Comment LPR Rule Version Divergence]]
- [[T009 - Sherwood ALPR Completion and Installation Chronology]]
- [[T010 - Condor Internet Exposure Competing Accounts]]
- [[T011 - Fayetteville Evidence Delivery Messages]]
- [[T012 - Conway Semiannual LPR Report Version Divergence]]
- [[T013 - Conway P1948 Permit Summary vs Engineering and GIS Points]]
## Dialectics
Completed three-phase arguments are collected through their verdict pages:
- [[D001 Synthesis]] — default-on sharing policy or product design.
- [[D002 Synthesis]] — attribution for the successor-policy omission.
- [[D003 Synthesis]] — ASP formal oversight versus functional statewide coordination.
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