# ASP Fiscal Section The **procurement-and-finance unit** of the [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]] that administers contracts and invoices for [[Arkansas State Police]]. Documented in the corpus as the responsive office for Item 1 of Joshua's 2026-05-19 ASP ALPR FOIA request. Operates from #1 State Police Plaza Drive, Little Rock, AR 72209. On purchase-order documents the section is identified as **"Department of Public Safety – Fiscal Section"** (e.g., Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 17). The institutional email for purchasing matters is `[email protected]`. The Fiscal Section's staff and managers use `@asp.arkansas.gov` personal addresses, signaling the section's operational positioning within ASP even though its formal name is DPS-wide. ## People - **[[Wanda Worley]]** — Procurement Official (`[email protected]`, 501-618-8728). Counterparty on Term Contract 4600055190 and PO 4502235324. - **[[Anna Hawthorne-Pennington]]** — Procurement Manager (`[email protected]`, 501-618-8335). Counterparty on PO 4502265167. - **"Seana"** — Fiscal Section ARPA-funds approver (referenced in a handwritten note on John Wright Invoice 55924ELSAG: *"Must Go To Seana for ARPA Funds"*). Full identity not surfaced in this batch. ## Roles in this corpus - **Responsive office for FOIA Item 1.** Roach's 2026-06-05 09:54 routing assigned Item 1 (procurement records) to the Fiscal Section, which returned `1513_001.pdf` (32 pages) the same day at 12:56 CDT. The responsiveness pattern is fast — overnight to same-day, depending on how the routing time is counted. - **The records-of-record custodian for ASP procurement.** The Fiscal Section's records — AASIS (Arkansas Administrative Statewide Information System / SAP-based) financial codings, POs, invoices, term contracts, requisitions, payment-tracking forms — are the canonical authoritative record for ASP's procurement activity. The production demonstrates the records' integrity: cross-document references (PO header ↔ Term Contract OA ↔ AASIS coding ↔ invoice) are consistent and internally validating. - **The handler of the AASIS Funds Management availability-control flow.** The page-21 SAP screen capture documents an "Annual budget exceeded by 11,486.65 USD" warning at the moment the smaller PO was processed. The Fiscal Section is the office that handles the Funds Management override or budget adjustment that allowed the PO to proceed; the production does not contain that override's documentation. ## Notes - The Fiscal Section is operationally distinct from but organizationally above the ASP Grants Division (which Roach named separately as the source for Item 5). The Fiscal Section handles routine procurement and accounts-payable; the Grants Division handles federal-grant administration. Both ultimately feed into the same AASIS general-ledger structure. - The Fiscal Section's responsiveness on Item 1 stands in informative contrast to Items 2-3-5: Items 2-3 are routed to a single operational Lieutenant (Lt. Overton's office), and Item 5 to the Grants Division. The Fiscal Section's records form the procurement spine; the operational records sit with the Lieutenant; the federal-grants administration sits with the Grants Division. This division of records-custodianship is structurally typical of state-agency record-keeping but worth noting as the corpus's first documentary example of state-LE-records architecture.