# Pulaski County Sheriff's Office The county sheriff's office of [[Pulaski County]], Arkansas — headquartered in Little Rock — and the responding agency for FOIA request `#26-808`. PCSO is the first county sheriff's office documented in this investigation as an operator of a Flock Safety ALPR system. The agency's standing public-records intake is the NextRequest portal at `pulaskicountysheriff.nextrequest.com`; the sheriff's official inbox is `[email protected]`. ## People - **Sheriff Higgins** — the elected Sheriff of Pulaski County. The Sheriff appears in the FOIA-correspondence trace only: the email request was addressed to `[email protected]` and the agency's Public Affairs Unit responded (Gmail `19e3d8f829ce62e4`). The Sheriff does not appear in the produced documents. - **[[Earnest Whitten]]** — Chief Deputy of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office; the senior-rank evaluator on the [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Bid Tabulation and Evaluator Scoring|RFP-23-003 evaluation panel]] and the agency-head signatory on the 2023-06-29 Notice of Proposals Received memorandum that selected Flock as the awarded vendor. - **[[Joe Garza]]** — PCSO Captain; the MSA's § 11.15 designated Notices contact for Flock; one of the 5 RFP-23-003 evaluators; the operational point-of-contact for the Flock procurement. - **[[Tony Jordan]]**, **[[Chris Holmes]]**, **[[Greg Evans]]** — PCSO personnel who served alongside Whitten and Garza as RFP-23-003 evaluators. - **[[Nina Jones]]** — PCSO Financial Director; designated Acting Authorized Official for the 2020-2022 federal PSN18 grant. - **[[Shydin Seahorn]]** — PCSO administrative staff (BS, MBA, CPM); front-line PSN-grant correspondence contact during 2020-2021. - **Public Affairs Unit** — the FOIA-intake desk at the email-side (`[email protected]`); redirected the email request to the NextRequest portal. - **IT Department** and **Criminal Investigations Division (CID)** — referenced in the 2026-05-20 portal routing message as the units processing item 2 (internal communications) and item 3 (usage / audit data) respectively. ## Roles in this corpus - **ALPR operator.** PCSO operates a Flock Safety ALPR system. Its § 12-12-1805 six-month practice-and-usage report covering January 1 – May 19, 2026 records **1,422,898 license plates scanned** and **2,092 confirmed alerts** ([[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]]). The Flock platform produced both released documents. - **Networked sharing counterparty.** PCSO is enumerated in Conway PD's [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] as "Pulaski County AR SO" (`SharedNetworks_2025_December_17.csv`, row 279) — one of the 1,384 organizations in Conway's Flock sharing topology as of 2025-12-17. The activity-side counterpart: 1,645 of PCSO's 2,092 alerts (79%) come from other agencies' custom hot lists shared into its networks ([[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]]). - **FOIA respondent (partial).** PCSO's response to `#26-808` released two usage-data PDFs on 2026-05-22 and left the request open: item 1 (vendor / procurement) was referred to the [[Pulaski County|Pulaski County Government Purchasing Department]], and item 2 (internal communications) is still being processed by the IT Department. See [[_overview]]. ## ALPR procurement history (updated 2026-06-05 from `#26-365`) The County's `#26-365` production resolved the procurement-side open questions left by PCSO's `#26-808` — providing the full documentary record of PCSO's ALPR procurement chain. ### Pre-Flock Genetec deployment (2021-2023) - **Funding:** Federal [[US Department of Justice — Bureau of Justice Assistance|US DOJ BJA]] Project Safe Neighborhoods Formula 18 grant (Subgrant `PE20-116-P18`, $75,500), passed through [[Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration — Office of Intergovernmental Services|Arkansas DFA-IGS]] to Pulaski County / PCSO. Awarded 2020-01-08; modified 2020-11-01 (COVID extension to 6/30/2021); closed 2022-01-06. See [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)]]. - **Vendor:** [[SkyCop, Inc.]] (Memphis TN) integrator/installer; [[Genetec, Inc.]] LPR platform. - **Equipment:** 3 fixed multi-camera SkyCop enclosures (6 fixed LPR cameras total) at Arch St (LR), McArthur Dr, Frazier Pike (NLR) + 1 mobile Genetec AutoVu Patroller system in Patrol Unit 913 + ARC server. Total invoiced $75,287.29. See [[SkyCop Invoice 8381 — Pulaski County Genetec System]]. - **Operational data:** Per the 2022-01 PSN18 Year-End Narrative: *"As of December 31st 2021 Our License Plate Readers have scanned some 1,386,000 license plates within the County of Pulaski. We have gotten over 800 active hits from these readers."* ### Flock deployment (2023-present) - **Procurement track:** [[Competitive RFP Procurement (Arkansas Counties)|Competitive RFP through ARBid state portal]] — the corpus's first documented competitively-bid Arkansas Flock procurement. - **Procurement timeline:** RFP-23-003 issued 2023-04-02; 4 bidders ([[Flock Safety, Inc.|Flock]], [[Utility Associates|Utility]], [[John Wright Associates, Inc.|John Wright]], [[Insight LPR, LLC|Insight LPR]]); evaluation by 5-member PCSO panel (Whitten, Jordan, Holmes, Garza, Evans) selected Flock; Award Letter 2023-08-07; MSA negotiation October 2023; contract file-stamped 2023-11-28. See [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Solicitation and Flock Safety Bid]], [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Bid Tabulation and Evaluator Scoring]], [[Pulaski County Flock Safety Term Contract Award (Contract 6764)]], [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)]]. - **Funding line:** `3015-0400-3073` — **general fund**, NOT asset-forfeiture (resolves PCSO `#26-808` item 4 "no records" finding), NOT federal-grant funded. - **Contract value:** $36,900 over 24-month initial term per Order Form; Award Letter contemplates 3-year initial term ($24,677.63 first-year + reserves). 6 Falcon cameras at $3,000/yr each + $977.63 one-time start-up. Recurring annual fee $18,000. - **Camera locations (per [[Pulaski County ARDOT Right-of-Way Permit Request for Flock Cameras|2025-01-13 ARDOT permit letter]]):** 6 sites on state-highway right-of-way: Hwy 161 @ Tahara Industrial Dr (NLR), Eureka Garden Rd @ Matt Rd (NLR), Crystal Valley Rd @ Lawson Rd (LR), 145th St (LR), AR 107 @ Kuykendall (Jacksonville), West Dixon Rd (LR). - **Operational data (Jan-May 2026):** 1,422,898 plates scanned, 2,092 alerts (1,645 from other-agency-hot-lists). See [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]]. ### Transition synthesis The Genetec → Flock transition at PCSO is the corpus's second documented instance of the [[The Genetec-to-Flock Pre-Flock Transition|same vendor-platform transition pattern]] also documented at [[Conway Police Department]]: SkyCop-installed Genetec AutoVu (2021) → Flock Falcon cloud platform (2023+). The operational footprint did not materially change at the platform transition (1.4M plates over ~10 months in 2021 ≈ 1.4M plates over 4.5 months in 2026 — comparable orders of magnitude). ## Notes - PCSO does not track ALPR match outcomes. Its § 12-12-1805 report states, in full: "The Pulaski Co Sheriff's Office does not currently track this data." ([[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]]). - PCSO uses two FOIA channels: an email inbox at `[email protected]` (which redirects most requesters) and the NextRequest public-records portal as the system of record. The pattern matches Fayetteville and North Little Rock, also NextRequest-portal agencies. - Pulaski County is in central Arkansas; Conway is in adjacent Faulkner County to the north. The two productions document the same Flock network from two operating ends. - PCSO operates under [[Pulaski County|Pulaski County's]] executive procurement chain (Department → Grants Admin → Purchasing → Comptroller → County Attorney → Judge), with PCSO as the Originating Department and Judge [[Barry Hyde]] as the final signature authority. The structure is the same for the Flock procurement and the federal PSN18 grant administration. - The corpus's residual open question on PCSO `#26-808` item 2 (the "no records found" internal-communications certification) is **not closed** by the County's `#26-365` production. The County's response includes embedded PSN-grant administrative correspondence (in Contract 6228) and the October 2023 contract-negotiation thread (in Contract 6764), but does not include PCSO-side internal correspondence about Flock operational matters. Whether [[Joe Garza|Garza]]'s inbox (as the MSA Notices contact) was searched during PCSO's `#26-808` item 2 response is still unknown.