# Benton County Sheriff's Office County law-enforcement agency for [[Benton County]] in northwest Arkansas. Its July 22 initial response documents eight Flock coordinate/site records and a 1,944-row SharedNetworks export. The August 3 supplement states that six sites are installed and operational, produces P1873, reports active Motorola/WatchGuard model counts, and routes additional records to USB or other County custodians. ## Roles in this corpus - **Flock tenant and ALPR operator.** BCSO disclosed eight exact Flock coordinate/site records. On 2026-08-03 it said six are installed and operational and two remain uninstalled/in permitting. One coordinate is assigned both east- and westbound directions, leaving device count unresolved ([[Benton County SO Camera Locations and System Status]], Gmail message `19fc92818daf13aa`). - **P1873 permittee and countywide authorizer.** The supplement identifies an approved `#07 W HWY 12 @ GENTRY - RELOCATION` plan at `36.276600, -94.579146`; its completion page is blank. The Sheriff's letter authorizes Flock camera installation and use across incorporated and unincorporated Benton County ([[Benton County P1873 Flock Relocation Permit]], pp. 6–7, 11). - **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. It later reported 47 M500, 73 4RE, and 164 V300-or-V700 units showing active, without a native inventory or V300/V700 split; Motorola contracts are held by the County Judge ([[Benton County SO Camera Locations and System Status]], Gmail message `19fc92818daf13aa`). - **Ad hoc drone statement and custody referral.** BCSO says drones are deployed ad hoc, are not connected to ALPR or cloud programs, and are not part of a DFR auto-launch system; the follow-up says EMA under the County Judge holds the drones. - **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; the follow-up found no reconciliation records and says the infrared-camera webpage most likely needs updating. Historical equipment status remains bracketed at [[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 August 3 custodian response found no records and says the page most likely needs updating; the historical equipment trail remains bracketed at [[T015 - Benton County Marine Camera Status]]. The request remains active through delivery of the offered SharedNetworks/Network Audit and six-month ALPR files on USB and through referrals for County Judge/EMA records. See [[benton-county-so/2026-08-03-p1873-permit-supplement/_overview|Benton County SO P1873 Permit Supplement]].