# Pulaski County The county government of Pulaski County, Arkansas — the state's most populous county, with county seat **Little Rock** — and the parent jurisdiction of the [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]]. Pulaski County is documented in this investigation as the **administrative-and-financial backbone** for PCSO's ALPR procurement: the County procures the equipment, signs the contracts, administers the federal grants, and files the official records, while PCSO operates the cameras. The County's role is documented across the [[_overview|`#26-365` production]] (2026-06-05). Pulaski County is organized as Arkansas counties are: an elected **County Judge** as chief executive ([[Pulaski County Judge's Office]]); an elected **Sheriff** as chief law-enforcement officer ([[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]]); an elected **Quorum Court** of Justices of the Peace as legislative body ([[Pulaski County Quorum Court]]); an elected **Circuit Clerk** as records-of-record office ([[Pulaski County Circuit Clerk]]); and administrative offices including Purchasing, Comptroller, Grants Administration, and the County Attorney. The County's central administrative offices are at **201 South Broadway, Suite 400, Little Rock, AR 72201** (Judge's office; Purchasing at Suite 440). Phone 501.340.8305 (Judge) | 501.340.8390 (Purchasing). ## People The County's executive and administrative-office personnel surfaced in the corpus through [[_overview|the `#26-365` production]]: - **[[Barry Hyde]]** — County Judge / Chief Executive Officer (2018-present at minimum) - **[[Tashika Keown]]** — Lead Buyer, [[Pulaski County Purchasing Department]] - **[[Katie Hargis]]** — Grants Administrator, [[Pulaski County Grants Administration]] - **[[Terri Hollingsworth]]** — [[Pulaski County Circuit Clerk]] - **[[Mariah Hatta]]**, **[[Mike Hutchens]]** — County Government staff with PSN-grant-routing roles - **Stacy Woods** — Pulaski County Budget/Purchasing contact (501-340-4352) — per-person page not warranted absent further anchoring Sheriff's Office personnel are documented at [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]]. ## Roles in this corpus ### Procurement-records custodian for PCSO ALPR contracts The Pulaski County Government is the contracting authority for PCSO's ALPR procurement, with the procurement chain routing as follows: 1. **PCSO** as originating department generates the procurement request 2. **[[Pulaski County Purchasing Department]]** issues the RFP through [[ARBid]], coordinates evaluation, drafts the Award Letter 3. **[[Pulaski County Comptroller's Office]]** verifies funding-line availability 4. **[[Pulaski County Attorney's Office]]** reviews the contract 5. **[[Pulaski County Judge's Office]]** ([[Barry Hyde|Judge Hyde]]) executes the contract 6. **[[Pulaski County Circuit Clerk]]** ([[Terri Hollingsworth]]) file-stamps it into the official records The chain handles all PCSO procurement contracts under the County's executive authority — including the [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)|2023-2026 Flock contract]] ($36,900) and the [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)|2018-2022 PSN18 federal grant]] ($75,500) — without [[Pulaski County Quorum Court|Quorum Court]] legislative action. ### Federal grant subgrantee Pulaski County is the documented federal grant subgrantee for PCSO's pre-Flock Genetec ALPR system, administered through [[Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration — Office of Intergovernmental Services|DFA-IGS]] from the [[US Department of Justice — Bureau of Justice Assistance|US DOJ Bureau of Justice Assistance]] PSN18 award. Judge Hyde signed as Authorized Official; [[Nina Jones]] (PCSO Financial Director) served as Acting Authorized Official for day-to-day administration; [[Katie Hargis]] handled County-side grant administration. ### ARDOT permit applicant for surveillance infrastructure Pulaski County's Judge applied directly to ARDOT for permission to install 6 [[Flock Safety, Inc.|Flock]] LPR cameras on state-highway right-of-way ([[Pulaski County ARDOT Right-of-Way Permit Request for Flock Cameras|January 13, 2025 letter]]). The County — not [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office|PCSO]] and not Flock — is the named permit applicant, even though the [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Solicitation and Flock Safety Bid|RFP scope]] obligated Flock to handle ARDOT permitting. The deployment locations span three cities (Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville) and one unincorporated area within the County's jurisdictional reach. ### Federal-grant compliance counterparty The County's relationship with [[Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration — Office of Intergovernmental Services|Arkansas DFA-IGS]] documents the standard Arkansas pass-through federal-grant chain. DFA-IGS administers federal funding from US DOJ, BJA, and other federal agencies; Pulaski County is one of many sub-state grantees. The corpus's documentation of Pulaski County's PSN18 chain is the corpus's clearest single anchor for the [[Federal Law Enforcement Grants for Surveillance Procurement]] funding pattern. ## Procurement-track classification For the cross-jurisdictional [[ALPR Procurement Below the Appropriation Line]] analytic frame, Pulaski County's Flock procurement uses the **[[Competitive RFP Procurement (Arkansas Counties)|competitive RFP procurement track]]** — distinct from Conway PD's [[Sole-Source Procurement Language Avoidance|sole-source language laundering]] and from LRPD's [[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle|cooperative-purchasing piggyback]]. Of the three Arkansas Flock procurement tracks documented in the corpus, Pulaski County's is the most procurement-law-compliant and the least citizen-visible: a formal RFP through ARBid, 4-bidder competitive evaluation, executive-authority sign-off without [[Pulaski County Quorum Court|Quorum Court]] vote. ## Notes - The County and the City of Little Rock are **separate jurisdictions** with overlapping geography (Little Rock is the County seat). The [[Little Rock Police Department]] is a municipal agency under [[City of Little Rock]]; the [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] is a county agency under Pulaski County. Both produce FOIA responses to the same investigator about overlapping surveillance topics. - Pulaski County borders [[City of Conway]]'s Faulkner County to the north. The two County / municipal jurisdictions independently document the same Flock sharing network — see [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] and [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]]. - The County's procurement-rules manual — the document that would specify the dollar threshold above which [[Pulaski County Quorum Court|Quorum Court]] approval is required — is **not in the corpus**. A targeted FOIA to the County Clerk's office or the Pulaski County Quorum Court for that manual would identify the threshold and any documented legislative deliberation about contracts below it. - The County's **pre-Flock LPR procurement** ([[2021-02 Pulaski County Deploys SkyCop Genetec ALPR System]]) and the **current Flock procurement** are continuous: PCSO has operated ALPR continuously from February 2021 through the present, transitioning platforms in 2023-2024 via the [[The Genetec-to-Flock Pre-Flock Transition|Genetec → Flock pattern]] also documented at [[Conway Police Department]].