# Arkansas Highway Police The Arkansas Highway Police (AHP) is a state commercial-vehicle-enforcement force. In this production it appears as a nested group inside ASP's ELSAG/HIDTA ALPR domain and as a specifically named authorized ALPR user under Act 668. > [!success] Affiliation resolved by enacted text > Act 668 expressly names the “Arkansas Highway Police Division of the Arkansas Department of Transportation,” resolving the earlier parent-agency uncertainty (primary public record, [Act 668 of 2025](../../web%20archive/2026-07-20/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-668-2025.md), p. 2). The ASP-domain and DEA coordination records remain separate operational facts. ## People - [[Leonard J. Turner]] — DEA agent described as *"with the Arkansas Highway Police"*; granted admin rights over the AR ALPR domain for "his team." ## Roles in this corpus - **Nested ALPR group.** Overton requests *"a 'AR Arkansas Highway Police' group within the 'AR Arkansas State Police' domain,"* with its own hot lists and POC ([[ASP–Houston HIDTA MOU and ELSAG Domain Architecture]]; Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ MOU and Point(s) of Contact.msg`). - **Statutorily named ALPR user.** Act 668 authorizes AHP use at a weigh-station entrance ramp for electronic verification of registration, logs, and other commercial-vehicle compliance data (primary public record, [Act 668 of 2025](../../web%20archive/2026-07-20/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-668-2025.md), p. 2; ARDOT's Tier-1 copy at [[Act 668 of 2025]]). ASP's internal summary shows that ASP understood the same change ([[Act 668 of 2025 — Internal ALPR-Law Summary]], `Re_ LPR Law Amendment .msg`). - **Deployment partner.** Named alongside ARDOT as assisting the ALPR siting rollout ([[ALPR Meeting with ARDOT]]). - **Subject of 12 CAR 150.** The proposed rule assigns Arkansas Highway Police ownership of its LPR systems and data, administrator duties, public statistical compilation, 150-day storage, dissemination logging, and alert-verification procedure ([[12 CAR 150 License Plate Reader Rules]], `001.01.26-001P.PDF`, pp. 4-6). - **Public-comment modifications.** ARDOT modified the post-comment rule to replace “the division” with “Arkansas Highway Police” and to tie permitted use to § 12-12-1803 ([[July 10 2026 Public Comment Dispositions]], `Sheet1!D14:E15`; [[July 7 2026 Post-Comment LPR Rules Draft]], ¶¶ P0044, P0047). ## Notes The AHP's ALPR access is administered through ASP's domain but operated separately ("their own hot lists and settings"). The DEA/ARDOT/AHP overlap around [[Leonard J. Turner]] is unresolved in the record. The exact final wording of AHP's administrator and retention duties remains unresolved because ARDOT's March and July rule branches were not shown merged; see [[T008 - Post-Comment LPR Rule Version Divergence]].