# Drake Vickers FOIA officer, [[Conway Police Department]] — per the F.O.I.A. unit on the CPD org chart (primary public record, [Conway PD org chart](../../web%20archive/2026-05-18/conwaypd.org/org-chart.md)). Sender domain `[email protected]`; the email signature on the 2026-05-28 appeal-transmittal message is "Drake O. Vickers / Conway Police Department FOIA." ## Role and affiliations - **FOIA Officer**, [[Conway Police Department]] (F.O.I.A. unit, Office of the Chief). ## Appearances in the corpus Vickers does not appear in `PD-2026-354` as a corpus actor — his role is as the FOIA officer who processed the requests. He appears in the FOIA-correspondence trace (Gmail, not `raw/`), and is the transmittal authority on the formal CPD Custodian-of-Records letters that close `PD-2026-477` and its appeal: - **2026-04-22 16:12** voluminous-records notice on `PD-2026-354` — Gmail thread `19db5f6e8bff4f15`. - **2026-04-22 21:00** recipient of Joshua's clarification reply (which bounced at 21:02 — `19db70005f95e137`). - **2026-04-23 13:18** completion notification on `PD-2026-354` — Gmail thread `19dba7dd24e3b9e1`. - **2026-05-22 13:36** the `PD-2026-477` completion / withholding notice arrives via the JustFOIA portal; the underlying [[Custodian Response Letter]] is signed in the institutional "Custodian of Records" title rather than by Vickers personally, but the FOIA-officer role makes him the transmittal authority. Gmail thread `19e4fe6bc7700b88`. - **2026-05-22 17:52** recipient of Joshua's FOIA appeal of the items-D/G/H/I withholdings (Gmail thread `19e50c97d4482910`); the email is addressed `[email protected]` with `[email protected]` and `[email protected]` cc'd. - **2026-05-28 09:01 CDT** transmits the Department's six-page response to the appeal as PDF attachment `Dunlap Response 5 27.pdf`; cover-note body reads in full: *"Provided is a response to the latest appeal request. Drake Vickers / Conway Police Department FOIA"*. The substantive content is the attached [[Custodian Response on Appeal]], signed in the institutional title. See [[2026-05-27 Conway PD Maintains Withholding on Appeal]]. ## Notes - Vickers's 2026-04-22 16:12 voluminous-records notice estimated ~1,500 emails in scope and offered to narrow to ~430 emails described as `Mayor↔Flock↔admin` correspondence. The [[2026-05 Bounce-Scope Diagnostic]] established that the delivered production contains **zero** Mayor's Office addresses — making Vickers's framing inaccurate as a description of what was actually produced. The production is `CPD↔Flock↔Burningham` with substantial CPD-command/admin participation beyond Burningham. Whether Vickers' framing was a search-spec narrative that he then operationally widened, or a careless description of an already-CPD-only set, is undetermined; the supplemental FOIA (`_phase2_workdir/supplemental_foia_draft.md`) asks him directly. - Both the 2026-05-22 [[Custodian Response Letter]] and the 2026-05-27 [[Custodian Response on Appeal]] are signed in the institutional title "Custodian of Records, Conway Police Department" rather than by Vickers personally — though Vickers is the transmittal authority on both. Whether Vickers personally authored the legal reasoning or whether City Attorney Charles Finkenbinder (cc'd on the appeal) drafted the response with Vickers's transmittal is undetermined from the record. The 2026-05-27 letter explicitly states "the City is also requesting guidance from the Arkansas Attorney General," signaling Conway-City-side legal coordination beyond Vickers's FOIA-officer role.