# 2024-12 Harris Pivots to Asset Forfeiture Within hours of receiving notice that the Conway City Council cut the Flock LPR camera line item from the 2025 city budget, **Chief Chris Harris announced his pivot to asset-forfeiture funding** as "plan B." The decision was conveyed by email to Flock TSM Brittney Hall on 2024-12-13 at 11:10 AM. Harris stated he intended to obtain "approval at the first city council meeting in January" — implying a brief consultative step rather than a substantive re-appropriation vote. ## Sources - [[Morning - Procurement Pivot Thread]] — Chief Harris's 2024-12-13 11:10 AM email to Brittney Hall: "However, I can still get them using our asset forfeiture funds. I just need to get approval at the first city council meeting in January, which I am confident I will get. On to plan B." ## Significance - This is the documentary anchor for the "asset-forfeiture funding for surveillance procurement" concept ([[Asset-Forfeiture Funding for Surveillance Procurement]]). The pivot from appropriated budget to asset-forfeiture funds is explicit and verbatim from the Chief himself. - Harris's "I am confident I will get" framing of the Council January meeting suggests the asset-forfeiture authorization step was treated as a low-friction procedural matter rather than a substantive re-appropriation vote. Whether that proved correct is testable against the January 2025 Conway City Council minutes. - The pivot enabled the contract execution. Brittney Hall responded the same day asking "How many years for this quote using those funds? 1, 2, or 3?" — operating on the assumption that asset-forfeiture funds were available and the deal could close on the same scope as originally proposed. ## Open - The Conway City Council January 2025 meeting minutes are the key record for whether the asset-forfeiture authorization Harris promised actually happened, and remain to be reviewed. - The asset-forfeiture ledger entry itself (Item 4 of the original FOIA) is not surfaced. Supplemental FOIA candidate.