# Bart Castleberry The elected Mayor of the [[City of Conway]], Arkansas, anchored throughout the corpus by name and city email (`[email protected]`). Castleberry is the executive office holder under whose tenure the Conway PD Flock procurement was authorized (January 2025), the ARDOT right-of-way permitting was executed (2025-2026), and the spring 2026 citizen oversight wave reached the Mayor's Office. ## Role and affiliations - **Mayor**, [[City of Conway]] — Office of the Mayor, 1111 Main Street, Conway, AR 72032. Per (primary public record, [Conway Mayor's Office page](../../web%20archive/2026-05-18/conwayarkansas.gov/mayor.md)). - Presented item E-3 (Ordinance O-25-09 — the Flock procurement ordinance) at the [[January 14 2025 Conway City Council Meeting]] per the minutes. ## Appearances in the corpus ### As the formal ARDOT permittee for the Conway PD Flock cameras (2025-2026) Castleberry's name appears on three load-bearing ARDOT documents in `FOIA-2026-127` ([[ARDOT Right-of-Way Permitting — Case 941655 and Permit SP-08-2025-0036]]): - **2025-02-11** — signs the City-of-Conway support letter to ARDOT for Flock-Safety pole installation; drafted by CPD, routed through Felicia Rogers → Shawanna Rodgers for *"BC signature"*. - **2025-04-03** — signs the right-of-way application to ARDOT District 8; the application form lists fourteen Flock camera locations and is submitted by Flock Safety's Cody Boudreaux that same day. - **2026-02-09** — receives ARDOT Special Permit SP-08-2025-0036 from ARDOT District 8 Engineer David Ross, addressed *"Mayor Bart Castleberry, City of Conway"* — authorizing the City to install and maintain License Plate Recognition Cameras in ARDOT's right of way for fourteen locations on Hwy 60, Hwy 64, Hwy 65, and Hwy 365. The City of Conway is therefore the **legal permittee** for the state-right-of-way Flock cameras; Conway PD is the operating user. ### As the executive office holder on Ordinance O-25-09 (January 2025) Castleberry presented item E-3 (the LPR ordinance, O-25-09) at the [[January 14 2025 Conway City Council Meeting]] — the minutes record "Mayor Castleberry presented Item E3" — without naming Chief Harris on that item. The ordinance was approved by Castleberry's signature after the 8-0 Council passage. The wider procurement-coordination thread that produced the ordinance ([[Pre-Council Procurement Coordination Dec 2024 – Jan 2025]]) ran through Castleberry's Chief of Staff Felicia Rogers and his Procurement Manager Tiffany Maddox; Castleberry did not himself email Chief Harris on the procurement during that window per the records in this production. ### As executive recipient of Flock-supplied talking points (April 20, 2026) Chief Harris forwarded the Flock-Safety-supplied talking points reply (from Engage Success / Emmie Tajik) to Castleberry at 12:47 PM on April 20, 2026, with the message body *"See below."* This places Castleberry on the chain of vendor-supplied defensive material at the executive level, within hours of Burningham's request to Flock and three days before the Brick Harvey reconsideration submission ([[Flock Talking Points to Mayor's Office April 2026]]). ### As recipient of citizen oversight emails (April-May 2026) The Jacquiline Dickens / "Jacqui Landri" April 17, 2026 *"Flock Camera and a negligent unanimous decision"* email was addressed to Castleberry and the eight Council members; Castleberry forwarded it to Chief Harris, City Attorney Charles Finkenbinder, Communications Coordinator Bobby M. Kelly III, and Chief of Staff Felicia Rogers 54 minutes later. Multiple May 4, 2026 citizen emails asking that the Flock contract be placed on the May 12 Council agenda also reached Castleberry's inbox directly ([[Spring 2026 Citizen FOIA and Reconsideration Wave]]). No substantive Castleberry response is in the production. ### As the prior pre-Flock LPR supporter (2023) Castleberry signed a May 15, 2023 support letter to ARDOT for *"using and purchasing of Automated License Plate Readers (ALPR) by the Conway Police Department"* — pre-dating the Flock procurement and authored under then-Chief William Tapley's LPR pilot ([[2023 Pre-Flock LPR Support Letter to ARDOT]]). The Mayor's-Office paper-routing workflow (Rogers → Rodgers → BC signature) is the same pattern used for the 2025-26 Flock permitting. ## Notes - The "BC signature" shorthand in Felicia Rogers's internal emails is consistent across the 2023 and 2025-26 ARDOT permitting trails; "BC" = Bart Castleberry. - No substantive Castleberry-authored email on the December 2024 → January 2025 procurement coordination is in this production. His role on that procurement is institutional (presents O-25-09 at Council; signs ordinances and ARDOT correspondence) rather than substantive in the email record.