# 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 remains largely forward-looking pending future FOIA work — but the 2026-07-07 ASP internal-comms production adds ACIC's first concrete corpus appearance (see below). ## First concrete appearance (2026-07-07 internal-comms) ACIC appears in ASP's cross-network analyst-access checklist as one of six systems an ASP analyst is provisioned into (with ELSAG, Motorola LPR, Flock, AR Advance, and ATLAS), coordinated by [[Mike Patterson]] via the [[Arkansas State Fusion Center]] ([[Cross-Network Analyst Access and the Arkansas State Fusion Center]]; Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ Justin Dennis - Additional Analyst Support_ ICP Accesses (1).msg`). This shows ACIC as an *access target* in ASP's stack; it does **not** establish ACIC as the ALPR-oversight/systems-agency authority. The oversight-locus question the [[2026-06-05 Roach Route Map and Item-4 Disclaimer|Item-4 disclaimer]] raised — reopened as [[T006 - ASP ALPR Oversight Disclaimer vs Statewide Coordination Role|T006]] — still points to ACIC as the priority FOIA target. ## 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 - This page remains provisional 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 a priority candidate for a future records request and is named explicitly on [[Home]].