# Arkansas State Police The **statewide law-enforcement division** of the [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]] — Arkansas's first state-LE-agency to appear in this corpus. ASP is the state's primary highway-patrol, criminal-investigation, and statewide-coordination law-enforcement body, headquartered at **#1 State Police Plaza Drive, Little Rock, AR 72209**. The corpus's ASP touchpoint runs through the agency's 2024-2025 procurement of an **ELSAG ALPR system from [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]]** — the first non-[[Flock Safety, Inc.|Flock]] ALPR procurement documented in the Arkansas Surveillance corpus. ## People - **[[Dennis Overton]]** — Lieutenant, ASP HQ / ICP; the requestor on both ELSAG ALPR purchase orders. Almost certainly the "Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs" [[Ryan Roach]] referred to in his 2026-06-05 09:54 routing of Items 2 + 3 of the FOIA request. - **[[Wanda Worley]]** — Procurement Official, ASP / DPS Fiscal (`[email protected]`, 501-618-8728). Counterparty on the 2024 Term Contract and the larger PO. - **[[Anna Hawthorne-Pennington]]** — Procurement Manager, ASP / DPS Fiscal (`[email protected]`, 501-618-8335). Counterparty on the 2025 smaller PO. - **"Seana"** — unidentified Fiscal Section ARPA-funds approver; surfaced only via a handwritten note on the John Wright Invoice 55924ELSAG: *"Must Go To Seana for ARPA Funds"*. Per-person page not warranted absent further anchoring. Roach references but does not name **"the Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs"** as the source for Items 2 + 3; the production records identify Lt. Overton as the requestor on the procurement records, making him the most-likely Lieutenant referenced. Roach also refers to **"the Grants Division"** as the source for Item 5, but does not name a Grants Division contact. ## Roles in this corpus - **The first state-LE-agency in the corpus.** ASP operates at a different scale than the previously documented municipal departments (CPD, FPD, LRPD) and county sheriff's office (PCSO): statewide jurisdiction, primary highway-patrol responsibility, and (potentially) a structural Arkansas-LE coordination role. Roach's Item-4 disclaimer — that ASP does NOT conduct reviews, audits, or approvals of other agencies' or municipalities' use of ALPRs — is the corpus's clearest documentary statement that ASP does not operate a state-level CJIS-Systems-Agency role over Arkansas Flock-and-equivalent deployments. - **The corpus's first documented ELSAG ALPR customer in Arkansas.** ASP's procurement of [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]] / [[ELSAG ALPR Systems]] equipment is the corpus's first non-Flock ALPR-vendor Arkansas LE-agency procurement. *Observation:* this matters analytically because the four jurisdictions documented before ASP all selected Flock (CPD via sole-source-language-laundering, FPD via active courtship under an Axon-trial precedent, LRPD via OMNIA Partners cooperative-purchasing, PCSO via competitive RFP). ASP's selection of ELSAG over Flock — through a Texas Region 14 ESC (NCPA) cooperative-purchasing piggyback — is the first documentary anchor that Flock's Arkansas market position is not exclusive. - **The state-LE agency wired into the federal [[HIDTA LPR Network]] at procurement-time.** The "One Time HIDTA LPR Network License Included" line on PO 4502235324 documents the state-LE-to-federal-LE data-sharing infrastructure ASP adopted as a default operational state. This is structurally analogous to (but distinct in mechanism from) Conway PD's federal-LE access pattern (where Flock platform-default-on sharing reached US Postal Inspection Service and FBI at scale). - **The deployment is on Arkansas Interstate highways**, per the Leonardo pick lists' Customer Information lines. Six sites documented: I-30 Hope MM64.25; I-530 Big Rock Township (Pulaski County); I-40 Little Rock MM159; I-30 Little Rock; I-40 Maumelle; I-530 Big Rock Township (second reference). The geographic pattern is concentrated in central Arkansas (Pulaski County metro area) with one southwestern outlier (Hope). - **Funded by federal ARPA pass-through.** The procurement's `A.0960.ARPERR` fund/WBS code identifies it as part of the federal American Rescue Plan Act pass-through allocation per [[HB 1202 Section 35 ARPA Appropriation Excerpt]]. The DFA Disbursing Officer is the state-level intermediary that distributes ARPA money to state agencies. ## Operational identity ASP's exact internal organizational structure is not visible in this batch. The known data points: - **ASP HQ / ICP** is the location designation for Lt. Overton on both POs. **ICP = Interstate Criminal Patrol** — ASP's operational interdiction unit that runs Gulf Coast HIDTA's Arkansas-Interstate work; the expansion was confirmed by Tier-2 web research 2026-06-05 (primary public record, [ASP ICP HONORED AT HIDTA — 2026-04-28 DPS press release](../../web%20archive/2026-06-05/dps.arkansas.gov/asp-icp-honored-at-hidta-for-record-seizures-officer-of-the-year-recognition.md)). ASP's ICP team has been Gulf Coast HIDTA Agency / Team of the Year four consecutive years (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025). - The ASP Fiscal Section (procurement and finance) is named explicitly on the PO header ("Arkansas Department of Public Safety – Fiscal Section, #1 State Police Plaza Drive"). See [[ASP Fiscal Section]]. - The ASP Grants Division (federal-grants administration) is named by Roach as the responsible unit for Item 5. Not yet otherwise documented in this corpus. - The "Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs" is the operational owner of the ALPR program; the Items 2 + 3 routing identifies this role as the source of internal communications and audit data on ALPR use. ## Cross-references - [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]] — the parent department. - [[ASP Fiscal Section]] — the procurement-and-finance unit. - [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]] — the contracting vendor. - [[ELSAG ALPR Systems]] — the product line. - [[John Wright Associates, Inc.]] — the vendor's Arkansas-area reseller. - [[HIDTA LPR Network]] — the federal program integrated at procurement-time. - [[ARPA Pass-Through Funding (Arkansas)]] — the funding mechanism. - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] — the statute governing ASP's operation of its ALPR system, including a forthcoming § 12-12-1805 practice-and-usage-report obligation. - [[Arkansas Crime Information Center]] — the next-FOIA-target driven by Roach's Item-4 disclaimer that ASP does not exercise CJIS-Systems-Agency oversight. ## Notes - The corpus's ASP entry is single-batch as of 2026-06-05 (Item 1 / Fiscal only). The full picture of ASP's ALPR operations awaits Items 2 + 3 (internal communications + audit data) and Item 5 (grants). The Item 4 (CJIS-oversight) question is effectively closed by Roach's disclaimer. - ASP's structural distinction from municipal LE departments has implications for the corpus's procurement-track classification. Municipal departments operate under § 14-58-104 procurement rules (the source of Conway's sole-source-language-laundering analysis and LRPD's Line 43 / 44 exemption use); state agencies operate under the Arkansas Office of State Procurement (OSP) rules and the various cooperative-purchasing-vehicle agreements OSP authorizes. The NCPA / Region 14 ESC vehicle ASP used for the Leonardo procurement is in this state-procurement-class. - Tier-2 web research on the ASP organic act (Ark. Code Ann. Title 12, Subtitle 2, Chapter 8), the ASP Director (currently understood to be Col. Mike Hagar per general public knowledge, but not anchored in the corpus), and the historical ASP-to-DPS organizational consolidation is a backlog item.