# City of Conway The municipal government of Conway, Arkansas — the county seat of Faulkner County and the local government whose budget, appropriation process, and asset-forfeiture funds frame the Conway PD Flock procurement. The City is the parent entity of the [[Conway Police Department]], the [[Conway City Council]] (its legislative body), and the [[Mayor's Office (Conway)]] (its executive). The investigation's seed production, Conway PD `PD-2026-354`, is a record of one City department's surveillance procurement. ## People The City's offices are covered on their own pages: - [[Mayor's Office (Conway)]] — the executive, headed by Mayor Bart Castleberry. - [[Conway City Council]] — the legislative body, eight aldermen across four wards. - [[Conway Police Department]] — the municipal law-enforcement agency, headed by Chief [[Chris Harris]]. The City Clerk's office is the City's FOIA intake point; it received Joshua Dunlap's 2026-04-17 records request and routed it to Conway PD as `PD-2026-354` (see [[_overview]]). ## Roles in this corpus - **Appropriating government.** The City's 2025 budget process is where the Flock LPR cameras were "unexpectedly cut" — the [[Conway City Council]] declined to appropriate them in the deliberated budget, per Chief Harris's 2024-12-13 account in [[Morning - Procurement Pivot Thread]]; the produced [[Conway 2025 City Budget]] confirms no Flock line was adopted. The procurement that followed was authorized by a separate Council ordinance — **[[Ordinance O-25-09 — LPR Bid Waiver and Asset Forfeiture Appropriation|Ordinance O-25-09]]**, passed 8-0 on January 14, 2025 — that waived competitive bidding on a sole-source theory and appropriated $180,000 from the asset-forfeiture fund. See [[Asset-Forfeiture Funding for Surveillance Procurement]] and [[2025-01 Conway City Council Authorizes Flock Purchase (Ordinance O-25-09)]]. - **Records custodian beyond Conway PD.** The [[2026-05 Bounce-Scope Diagnostic]] found zero [[Mayor's Office (Conway)]] and zero [[Conway City Council]] addresses in the Conway PD production — meaning any Flock-related records held by other City offices (the Clerk, the Mayor's Office, City Finance, Purchasing) are not in `PD-2026-354`. The 2026-05-19 supplemental FOIA batch ([[2026-05 Multi-Jurisdiction FOIA Batch]]) filed separate requests with the City Clerk and the Mayor's Office to reach those records. - **FOIA respondent (`FOIA-2026-125`).** The City Clerk's office completed `FOIA-2026-125` on 2026-05-22, producing the 2025 budget, the January 14, 2025 Council minutes and agenda packet, Ordinance O-25-09, the original Flock capital request, and two payment records executing the asset-forfeiture appropriation. The Clerk separately determined that her own office holds no Council-member Flock-related correspondence (item 3) or ALPR purchasing records (item 4). See [[2026-05 Conway City Clerk FOIA-2026-125 Response]]. ## Notes - Conway is in Faulkner County; the City and the county Sheriff's Office are separate jurisdictions. - The contract was executed by [[Conway Police Department]], not the City directly. The City's appropriation of asset-forfeiture funds — the gap in the earlier corpus, tracked as Open Follow-up #2 — is now in the record as [[Ordinance O-25-09 — LPR Bid Waiver and Asset Forfeiture Appropriation]] (see [[2026-05 Conway City Clerk FOIA-2026-125 Response]]).