# Benton County Sheriff's Office County law-enforcement agency for [[Benton County]] in northwest Arkansas. Its 2026-07-22 initial response documents a Flock ALPR footprint through eight agency-disclosed coordinate/site records and a 1,944-row SharedNetworks export, while supplying narrower operational statements about WatchGuard/Motorola video, drones, OH-58 aviation, Marine Division equipment, sonar, and 1033 assets. ## Roles in this corpus - **Flock tenant and ALPR operator.** BCSO disclosed eight exact Flock coordinate/site records. Six were listed without an adverse qualifier; two were expressly “Not installed in permitting.” One coordinate was assigned both east- and westbound directions, leaving the device count unresolved ([[Benton County SO Camera Locations and System Status]]). - **Large sharing node.** Its [[SharedNetworks 2026-07-22 Snapshot]] contains 1,944 organization rows: 734 reciprocal, 97 inbound-only, and 1,113 outbound-only including the BCSO self-row. The topology includes Arkansas municipal partners, federal and multijurisdictional entities, out-of-state organizations, and private/community-labeled networks. - **WatchGuard/Motorola user.** The agency says its in-car and body-worn cameras are not cloud-connected and transfer locally by Wi-Fi to on-premises storage. The production does not supply current counts, model-level inventory, contracts, policies, or retention records. - **Ad hoc drone operator.** BCSO says its drones are deployed ad hoc, are not connected to ALPR or cloud programs, and are not part of a DFR auto-launch system. - **Aviation operator.** The agency says its OH-58 fleet has no downlink, an older FLIR8500 is installed on N134SD, and N131SD has only a spotlight. - **Marine Unit respondent.** Its email says boats have no cameras, conflicting with the live official Marine Unit page's infrared-camera statement. See [[T015 - Benton County Marine Camera Status]]. ## Cross-jurisdiction sharing The BCSO export independently corroborates a reciprocal Conway relationship: its line 694 shows Conway in both the inbound and BCSO-outbound fields, while Conway's December 2025 export shows Benton County from the Conway side (`SharedNetworks_2025_December_17.csv`, line 949). This is configured-topology evidence only; neither file proves a particular search, alert, permission scope, or outcome. ## Contradictions and open questions > [!contradiction] Marine boat-camera status > BCSO's 2026-07-22 email says the Marine Division does not have cameras on its boats. The official Marine Unit page says the unit uses “boat-mounted radar, infrared cameras, and underwater sonar” (primary public record, [official Marine Unit page](../../web%20archive/2026-07-22/sheriff.bentoncountyar.gov/marine-unit.md)). The conflict is tracked at [[T015 - Benton County Marine Camera Status]]. The initial response did not expressly close the request or dispose of the requested contracts, permits, complete inventories, statutory reports, audits, policies, architecture, procurement, and communications. See [[benton-county-so/2026-07-22-initial-response/_overview|Benton County SO Initial Surveillance Response]].