# 2025-01 Pulaski County Requests ARDOT Permit for 6 Flock Cameras On **January 13, 2025**, Pulaski County Judge [[Barry Hyde]] signed a single-page letter to ARDOT's District Permit Officer requesting permission to install **6 [[Flock Safety, Inc.|Flock Safety]] LPR cameras** at 6 specific locations on Arkansas-state-highway right-of-way within Pulaski County: 1. Hwy 161 @ Tahara Industrial Dr — North Bound — 5211 Taraha Industrial Dr, North Little Rock 72117 2. Eureka Garden Rd @ Matt Rd — North Bound — 1262 Eureka Garden Rd, North Little Rock 72117 3. Crystal Valley Rd @ Lawson Rd — South Bound — 18824 Crystal Valley Rd, Little Rock 72210 4. 145th St — East Bound — 4825 145th St, Little Rock 72206 5. AR 107 @ Kuykendall — North Bound — 22500 AR-107, Jacksonville 72076 6. West Dixon Rd — West Bound — 925 Oak Cir, Little Rock 72206 The letter specifies that **Flock Inc. will be conducting the installation in these locations and all cameras will be monitored by the [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]].** ## Sources - [[Pulaski County ARDOT Right-of-Way Permit Request for Flock Cameras]] — the production-overview source. ## Significance This is the **deployment-authorization event** — the moment Pulaski County operationally requested permission to install Flock cameras on state-highway right-of-way. The 6 selected sites span three different cities within Pulaski County (Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville) plus the unincorporated Crystal Valley Rd area; the deployment is structurally a state-highway corridor surveillance network, not a county-roads or in-municipality network. The event timing is striking: the contract was [[2023-11 PCSO-Flock Contract 6764 Filed with Circuit Clerk|executed November 28, 2023]] with a contracted installation deadline of February 27, 2024 (180 days from August 21, 2023 commencement per the Award Letter). The ARDOT permit request came **nearly a year after** the contracted installation deadline. The corpus does not document why the deployment took 14 months from contract execution to the formal ARDOT permit request. Possible explanations: (a) the County requested informal extensions from Flock; (b) Flock and PCSO coordinated informally with ARDOT before submitting the formal permit; (c) the cameras were physically installed off-right-of-way before the permit was applied for; or (d) administrative delays accumulated through the 2024 calendar year. The letter also establishes the **geographic distribution of PCSO's Flock surveillance footprint** — the 6 sites at arterial state-highway locations across Pulaski County provide a corridor-based surveillance network covering commuter and through-traffic flows. The cameras were operational by January 2026 per the [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report|§ 12-12-1805 report]], which documents 1,422,898 plate reads from this network over January-May 2026.