# Barry Hyde **Pulaski County Judge / Chief Executive Officer** during the period documented in this corpus. The chief executive of [[Pulaski County]] Government — the Arkansas county-government counterpart to a Mayor in municipal government. Email: `[email protected]`. Office: **201 South Broadway, Suite 400, Little Rock AR 72201**. Phone 501.340.8305 | Cell 501.351.6616. For the surveillance investigation, Judge Hyde is the **executive-authorization signatory** on every significant document in PCSO's ALPR procurement chain — both the pre-Flock Genetec system (2018-2021, via the federal PSN grant) and the current Flock procurement (2023-present, via the competitive RFP). ## Role and affiliations - **County Judge / Chief Executive Officer** of [[Pulaski County]] - Presides over (but does not vote in) the [[Pulaski County Quorum Court]] - Final-signature authority on Pulaski County contracts and federal-grant subaward documents - Located at the Pulaski County Government central administrative office at 201 South Broadway, Little Rock ## Appearances in the corpus ### Pre-Flock federal PSN grant chain (2018-2022) - **[[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)]]** — Named Authorized Official on Federal Award Numbers `2018-GP-BX-0013` and `2018-GP-BX-0072` (PSN Formula 18). Signed the original January 8, 2020 Award Document; signed the COVID-modified Award Document (November 1, 2020 effective); signed the Acting Authorized Official designation transferring grant-administration authority to PCSO Financial Director [[Nina Jones]]; signed the DHS/ICE Communications Addendum #1 in February 2020. - **[[SkyCop Invoice 8381 — Pulaski County Genetec System]]** — Authorized Official on the January 2022 DFA-IGS Year-End Financial Report and Year-End Narrative Report that closed out the PSN18 grant ($75,269.29 spent of $75,500 awarded). The Narrative documents the 1.4M plates scanned and 800+ active hits PCSO's then-deployed Genetec system produced through 12/31/2021. ### Flock procurement (2023-present) - **[[Pulaski County Flock Safety Term Contract Award (Contract 6764)]]** — Signed the **August 7, 2023 Term Contract Award Letter** to Flock Safety as "County Judge / Chief Executive Officer." The award letter is on Pulaski County letterhead and is the formal executive authorization for the Flock procurement. - **[[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)]]** — Customer-side wet-ink signatory on the executed MSA Order Form, dated **November 28, 2023** (same date the Pulaski County Circuit Clerk [[Terri Hollingsworth]] file-stamped the document). Signature line shows OCR-garbled title text reading as "Cosy Sade/CED" — interpreted as "County Judge/CEO." - **[[Pulaski County ARDOT Right-of-Way Permit Request for Flock Cameras]]** — Authored the **January 13, 2025 letter** to ARDOT requesting permission to install **6 Flock LPR cameras** at 6 specific Pulaski County locations on state-highway right-of-way (Hwy 161, AR 107, Crystal Valley Rd, Eureka Garden Rd, 145th St, West Dixon Rd). Signed as "Pulaski County Judge/CEO." ## Notes - **Hyde is the corpus's analog of Conway Mayor [[Bart Castleberry]] for Pulaski County.** Both are elected executives who sign ALPR-related authorizations on their respective jurisdictions' letterheads — Castleberry signed Conway's ARDOT permit and the Mayor's-Office Flock support letter; Hyde signs Pulaski County's ARDOT permit and the Flock contract. The Conway / Pulaski County contrast is structural: the County Judge is presiding officer of the legislative body but doesn't vote in it, while the Mayor doesn't preside over the City Council but signs ordinances after Council passage. Different constitutional posture; functionally similar role in surveillance procurement authorization. - The corpus does not document Hyde's electoral history, political party, public statements about surveillance, or interactions with citizen oversight on Flock-related issues. The corpus's window into Hyde is purely as the official-signature authority on County contracts. - Hyde's signature on the August 2023 Flock Award Letter — without an accompanying Quorum Court ordinance or resolution — is the corpus's documentary anchor for the executive-authority procurement track. The Flock procurement is the corpus's lowest-visibility ALPR adoption in part because Hyde's signature was sufficient under Pulaski County procurement rules. - Hyde has been County Judge throughout the corpus-documented period (2018 PSN grant award through January 2025 ARDOT permit). The corpus does not document the term-of-office structure or whether Hyde has been re-elected during this period.