# Pulaski County Circuit Clerk The Circuit Clerk's office of [[Pulaski County]], Arkansas. In Arkansas county government, the Circuit Clerk's office serves as the **office of record** for the Circuit Court system *and* — separately — as the official records-filing office for county-government documents that require formal entry into the public record (deeds, executed contracts, ordinances, certain administrative orders). The Circuit Clerk file-stamps each filed document with a date/time stamp and assigns it a record location. For the surveillance investigation, the Circuit Clerk's office is the **terminal file-stamping node** in the County's contract-execution chain: every executed contract in the production carries a *"FILED [date/time] / Terri Hollingsworth, Pulaski County Circuit Clerk"* stamp, confirming entry of the document into the official public record. ## People - **[[Terri Hollingsworth]]** — Pulaski County Circuit Clerk. The file-stamping authority on: - The January 29, 2020 federal PSN18 [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)|Award Document]] (multiple "FILED 01/29/20 09:58:XX" stamps across the 16-page Award Continuation Sheet) - The November 28, 2023 executed [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)|Flock MSA]] (*"FILED 11/28/23 14:39:54 TK / Terri Hollingsworth / Pulaski County Circuit Clerk"*) - The October 2, 2025 Award Letter copy in the [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Bid Tabulation and Evaluator Scoring|FOIA-response file]] (*"FILED 10/02/25 11:38:40"*) ## Roles in this corpus - **Official records of record for executed County contracts.** Every contract in the production is file-stamped by the Circuit Clerk. The stamping provides legally-effective public-record entry, evidentiary date-of-execution support, and a permanent records-management trail. - **Records-availability frame for FOIA discovery.** The Circuit Clerk's file-stamped repository is the place where executed Pulaski County contracts are findable through public records search. The Pulaski County Government NextRequest portal that produced the `#26-365` response is administratively distinct, but the documents it produced are the same documents that exist in the Clerk's records. ## Notes - The Circuit Clerk's office is administratively distinct from the County Judge's office (the executive branch) and the Quorum Court (the legislative branch). The Circuit Clerk serves all branches by providing the official-records-management function — a fourth pillar of County government structure. - The Circuit Clerk's records are also the repository for Faulkner County's [[Ordinance O-25-09 — LPR Bid Waiver and Asset Forfeiture Appropriation|Ordinance O-25-09]] (recorded 2025-02-11 at Doc Num L2025018532, executed by Faulkner County Circuit Clerk Nancy Eastham). Across the Arkansas Surveillance corpus, each County's Circuit Clerk performs this records function for its jurisdiction. - An interesting follow-up question for completeness: whether the Pulaski County Circuit Clerk's office maintains a publicly-searchable index of filed contracts and ordinances (as Faulkner County's records do through standard recording-doc-number indexing). Such a publicly-searchable index would substantially improve corpus-wide procurement-research efficiency.