# Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration — Office of Intergovernmental Services The Arkansas state agency responsible for administering **federal pass-through grants** to Arkansas counties, municipalities, and other sub-state units of government. Office mailing address: **1515 West Seventh Street, Suite 404, P.O. Box 8031, Little Rock, Arkansas 72203-8031.** Phone (501) 682-1074. Fax (501) 682-5206. Website (per the 2020-era PSN18 documents): `http://www.state.ar.us/dfa`. For the surveillance investigation, DFA-IGS is the **state-level pass-through agency** for the federal [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)|Project Safe Neighborhoods grant]] that funded PCSO's pre-Flock Genetec ALPR system. Federal funds flowed from the **[[US Department of Justice — Bureau of Justice Assistance|US DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance]]** to **DFA-IGS** as the state grantee, then sub-granted to **Pulaski County** as the subgrantee with PCSO as the operating unit. DFA-IGS managed the grant application, the subaward, the modification process (including the COVID extension), and the closeout. ## People - **[[Julie Shelby]]** (`[email protected]`) — DFA-IGS PSN program contact. The substantive program manager for PCSO's PSN18 grant during 2020-2021; sent the COVID-modification correspondence (October 5, 2020); coordinated certification, budget, and Acting Authorized Official designation processes. - **[[Kenya Buffington]]** (`[email protected]`) — DFA-IGS PSN staff. CC'd on most of the PSN18 grant correspondence to PCSO. - **[[Doris R. Smith]]** — Administrator, DFA-IGS / State Technology. Signed the original PSN18 federal Award Document (January 8, 2020) on the agency-side approval line. - **[[Autumn Hemphill]]** — Statewide Program Manager, Intergovernmental Services. Signed the COVID-modification Award Document (November 1, 2020 effective date) — i.e., succeeded Doris R. Smith between the original award and the modification, or was the alternate-authority signer. ## Roles in this corpus - **Federal pass-through administration.** DFA-IGS receives federal grants (PSN, JAG, COPS-equivalent, etc.) from US DOJ and sub-grants them to Arkansas local governments. For PSN18, the sub-grant identification is `PE20-116-P18` ($75,500). The pass-through includes responsibility for compliance, financial reporting, and closeout against the federal grant conditions. - **Award documentation.** Each Award Document carries the standard federal-grant template — special conditions covering Part 200 Uniform Requirements (2 CFR Part 200), DOJ Grants Financial Guide compliance, FFATA reporting, SAM registration, civil rights / nondiscrimination, 8 U.S.C. 1373 noninterference. DFA-IGS countersigns on behalf of the state grantee. - **Modification handling.** When the COVID extension was needed (November 2020), DFA-IGS sent the Modified Award Document to PCSO with instructions to sign in blue ink and return by mail. The state-level facilitation of federal-grant modifications is the DFA-IGS function visible in the corpus. - **Closeout reporting and audit.** The Year-End Financial Report and Year-End Narrative Report that [[Nina Jones]] submitted to DFA-IGS at the close of PSN18 (January 2022, see [[SkyCop Invoice 8381 — Pulaski County Genetec System]]) are the standard DFA-IGS closeout artifacts. ## Notes - DFA-IGS operates across multiple federal grant programs beyond PSN — including (per the standard award template) RSAT, LLEBG, JAG, and likely several others. The corpus does not document DFA-IGS's full federal-grant portfolio. - The state-level pass-through role is the structural reason DFA-IGS appears in the surveillance-investigation corpus: the federal PSN grant that funded PCSO's pre-Flock LPR system flowed through DFA-IGS as the state-level grantee. DFA-IGS did not itself fund Arkansas surveillance procurement; it administered federal funding. - DFA-IGS's role in the PSN-grant chain is structurally analogous to Arkansas Department of Emergency Management's role for FEMA pass-through grants or Arkansas Department of Education's role for federal education grants. DFA-IGS is one node in Arkansas's federal-grant pass-through architecture. - A follow-up FOIA to DFA-IGS for the full PSN-grant portfolio across Arkansas LE agencies during the 2018-2024 period would surface which other Arkansas jurisdictions (Faulkner County, Sebastian County, Washington County, etc.) received PSN18 (or successor) federal funding for ALPR or surveillance procurement.