# 2026-05 Multi-Jurisdiction FOIA Batch Seven Arkansas FOIA requests filed across three Conway-City entities and four new-jurisdiction agencies on 2026-05-19, building on the findings from review of [[Conway Police Department]] production `PD-2026-354`. The batch closes the remaining Conway-PD records gaps via a consolidated supplemental, probes records that CPD does not hold (Council records, Mayor's Office records) via direct requests to the holding agencies, and opens the multi-jurisdiction expansion with four high-impact targets (statewide ALPR posture, largest-municipality, adjacent-metro-county, NW-Arkansas-regional-anchor). ## Sources The seven filed requests, each with personal contact information omitted from the body and with a copy of the requester's Arkansas driver's license attached as residency verification: | # | Target | Submission channel | Status (2026-05-19) | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | Conway Police Department (supplemental to `PD-2026-354`) | Email — to Conway City Clerk; cc Mayor's Office, Chief Harris, Drake Vickers | Filed; no agency response yet | | 2 | Conway City Clerk | Email — [email protected] | Filed; no agency response yet | | 3 | Conway Mayor's Office | Email — Mayor Castleberry; cc Chief of Staff Rogers | Filed; no agency response yet | | 4 | Arkansas State Police | Email — [email protected] | Filed; no agency response yet | | 5 | Little Rock Police Department | Email — [email protected] (Public Affairs) | Filed; no agency response yet | | 6 | Pulaski County Sheriff's Office | Email — [email protected]; refiled same day via NextRequest portal as PCSO request `#26-808` after agency procedural redirect at 00:49 UTC | **`PCSO-26-808`** — submitted via portal | | 7 | Fayetteville Police Department | Email — [email protected] (City FOIA Coordinator) | Filed; no agency response yet | ## Significance - **Closes the procedural loop on the 2026-04-22 bounce.** The Conway PD supplemental (#1) restates the two scope clarifications from Joshua's bounced 2026-04-22 21:00 reply (Council-mention search and Mayor's-Office records) and adds ten records gaps surfaced in review of `PD-2026-354` in a single consolidated request — superseding the prior draft at `_phase2_workdir/supplemental_foia_draft.md`. Cc to monitored Conway addresses (Mayor's Office, Chief Harris, Drake Vickers, City Clerk) is the mechanical safeguard against another non-monitored-sender bounce. - **Triangulates the asset-forfeiture authorization paper trail.** Requests #1 (Conway PD), #2 (City Clerk), and #3 (Mayor's Office) ask the same fundamental question — what records authorized the use of asset-forfeiture funds for the Flock procurement after the Council cut the 2025 budget line item — from three different custodians. At least one should hold the responsive ledger entry, City Council January 2025 meeting minutes, or internal authorization memo. - **Opens the multi-jurisdiction expansion** with four agencies covering distinct slices of the statewide ALPR picture: ASP (statewide deployment + CJIS-Systems-Agency role), LRPD (largest municipal), PCSO (adjacent metro county), Fayetteville PD (NW Arkansas regional anchor). Each mirrors the Conway 4-item template adjusted for local context. - **First documented agency-procedural learning of the new round:** PCSO's Public Affairs Unit (`[email protected]`) replied to the email request within 16 minutes with a procedural redirect to the NextRequest portal. Sheriff Higgins personally forwarded the request to records-intake within 13 minutes of receipt. PCSO will not process email-only FOIA requests; the portal is the system of record. The pattern is recurring across Arkansas agencies that use third-party FOIA platforms (Conway: JustFOIA; PCSO + Fayetteville + North Little Rock: NextRequest) — for future jurisdiction FOIAs, file via the portal directly if one exists. ## Outcomes the batch is designed to produce - Definitive answer on the **asset-forfeiture-spend authorization paper trail** (triangulated across Conway PD + City Clerk + Mayor's Office). - **Time-series SharedNetworks data** for Conway PD's Flock network. - **Statewide ALPR adoption picture** via ASP + the three new-jurisdiction municipal/county FOIAs. - **Federal-LE access at scale beyond Conway** — if LRPD, Fayetteville, or PCSO have their own Federal Searches exports, that confirms the pattern is not Conway-specific. - **Pre-Flock LPR vendor identification** in Conway (Genetec) with a documentary anchor. ## Deferred FOIAs (later batch) - North Little Rock PD · Bentonville PD · Springdale PD · Rogers PD · Jonesboro PD - Faulkner County Sheriff's Office · Faulkner County Emergency Comms Center (PSAP) - Benton County SO - AR Department of Transportation (DOT right-of-way permitting trail) - Conway Finance Department / City Treasurer (if Mayor's-Office records don't surface the asset-forfeiture-fund disbursement trail) ## Cross-references - [[2026-05 Bounce-Scope Diagnostic]] — the diagnostic finding that drove the Conway PD supplemental's Council-mentions and Mayor's-Office clarifications. - Plan document: `_phase5_workdir/foia_plan.md` (operator-only). - Superseded draft: `_phase2_workdir/supplemental_foia_draft.md` (operator-only; preserved with header note marking supersession).