# Pulaski County Regional Crisis Stabilization Unit MOU A 2020-era **multi-county Memorandum of Understanding** for the operation of a **Regional Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU)** — a mental-health crisis-intervention facility serving Pulaski County and adjacent counties (including Faulkner County, per the signature page). The MOU is **not surveillance-related**. It surfaces in the Arkansas Surveillance investigation corpus solely because the document was **bundled into the [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)|Contract 6228 file folder]]** at the Pulaski County Purchasing Department — apparently because it was processed in the same approval-routing batch as the PSN18 grant administrative paperwork. This concept page exists primarily to (a) anchor the wikilink references from the PSN18 source page, (b) document that the bundling occurred (a procurement-records-management curiosity), and (c) note explicitly that the MOU is **out of scope** for the surveillance investigation. Substantive PCRCSU coverage is not a goal of this wiki. ## How it appears in the corpus The MOU appears in [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)]] (pages 5-9 of the `JD_Contract6228_Additional Forms.pdf` file). The visible contents: - **Attachment 1: Data Sharing.** Specifies that "Data" includes individual-level data fields (name, age, DOB, race, sex, **Social Security Number**, address, location of arrest, type charge, classification, court info, dispatch info, total individuals incarcerated, mental-health screening results, average length of stay, **recidivism rate**). "De-identify" obligations specify removal of name/SSN/address before transfer to Pulaski County. HIPAA and Ark. Code Ann. § 25-19-1085 compliance referenced. - **Attachment 2: Criteria for Admission.** Defines a CSU as a non-hospital emergency-services program (≤16 beds) for individuals in behavioral-health crisis or detained by LE. Lists admission criteria (LE referral, voluntary consent, age 18+, behavioral-health symptoms not solely intoxication) and exclusion criteria (acute intoxication preventing walking, suicidal/homicidal with active plan, custody-care needs, conditional release under Act 911). - **Conflict Resolution and Termination provisions.** Conflicts referred to the Pulaski County Judge's Office; counties retain right to terminate with 30-day notice. - **Term.** Effective upon all-parties signature; remains in effect until terminated. Reviewed annually beginning January 1, 2020. Signed by multiple county judges including [[Barry Hyde|Judge Hyde]] for Pulaski County and the Faulkner County Judge/CEO (signature OCR-garbled). Effective date 2020-01-06 (or similar; OCR partial). ## Stakeholders - Pulaski County and adjacent participating counties (the corpus does not enumerate all) - Behavioral-health crisis stabilization service provider (the medical services partner of the program; not separately named in the produced corpus material) - Participating city / local jail / law enforcement agencies in each county ## Notes - **The MOU is out of scope for this investigation.** It is mental-health-policy, not surveillance-policy. The wiki documents its existence to track the corpus's documentary contents accurately but does not develop substantive coverage. - The bundling of the MOU into the Contract 6228 file is a documentary curiosity. The most parsimonious explanation is that the Pulaski County Purchasing Department processed the MOU and the PSN-grant Acting Authorized Official designation in the same routing-form batch in early 2020, and both ended up in the same physical or electronic file. The bundling does *not* imply substantive linkage between the mental-health-CSU work and the ALPR-procurement work. - **A potential cross-investigation overlap:** the PCRCSU Data Sharing attachment enumerates broad LE-and-judicial individual-level data fields (SSN, addresses, court information, arrest locations, dispatch information) that flow between participating counties and the CSU. A separate investigation focused on **data-sharing networks between Arkansas LE agencies and mental-health services** might find PCRCSU relevant. For the Arkansas Surveillance investigation, the MOU is noted but not developed. - *Do not extend this page* unless a future production produces substantive PCRCSU surveillance-related material.