# Arkansas Crime Information Center The **Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC)** is the Arkansas state-level criminal-justice information system, codified at Ark. Code Ann. §§ 12-12-201 et seq. ACIC operates the state's central criminal-justice records database and is widely understood to be the entity that interfaces Arkansas LE agencies with federal systems (NCIC, NLETS, OMV). The [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] § 12-12-1803 enumerates ACIC alongside NCIC, OMV, the FBI, and "a database created by law enforcement for the purposes of an ongoing investigation" as the permissible comparison-databases for ALPR-captured plate data — making ACIC a structurally central entity in the Arkansas ALPR-data-comparison framework. The corpus does not yet contain a FOIA production from ACIC. This page is a forward-looking placeholder pending future FOIA work. ## Roles in the corpus (anticipated) - **The default candidate for the Arkansas CJIS-Systems-Agency role.** On 2026-06-05, [[Ryan Roach]] (Attorney, [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]]) explicitly disclaimed any [[Arkansas State Police|ASP]] role in reviewing, auditing, or approving other agencies' ALPR systems: *"to my knowledge ASP does not conduct any reviews, audits, or approvals of other agencies or municipalities and their use of ALRPs."* The disclaimer raises the question of where, if anywhere, the CJIS-compliance oversight role for Arkansas ALPR deployments actually sits. ACIC is the natural candidate to inquire of. - **The Arkansas ALPR Act's named comparison-database operator.** § 12-12-1803(d)(1)(C) permits ALPR comparison against "Arkansas Crime Information Center"; this is the only Arkansas-specific entity named in the ALPR Act's permitted-use list. - **The likely operator of the state-level audit-and-access-control regime for Arkansas LE access to NCIC**. Whether ACIC's oversight responsibilities extend to platform-vendor ALPR systems (Flock, ELSAG, Genetec, etc.) when those platforms expose NCIC hot-list comparison through their own commercial infrastructure is the next-FOIA-target question. ## People (none anchored yet) ## Notes - The page is created as a forward-looking placeholder at confidence: low. Anchoring will come from a future ACIC FOIA production, an external Tier-2 source (state statute, ACIC published policies, audits), or a cross-corpus surfacing in another agency's production. - Existing corpus references to ACIC are passing mentions in CPD Policy 800-32, the LRPD Flock MSA § 4.4 (incorporating the Arkansas ALPR Act), and the Arkansas ALPR Act archive. None of these documents an operational interaction with ACIC. - A targeted FOIA to ACIC under the ALPR-corpus template (procurement, internal communications, usage/audit data, CJIS-Systems-Agency role, grants) is the next-candidate-FOIA target per `index.md` and is named explicitly on [[Home]] and on `PLAN.md`.