# Heath Helton Chief of Police, Little Rock Police Department. Signs LRPD authorization memoranda directed to the Mayor's Office for major surveillance/investigative-technology procurements. Documented in the [[sources/city-of-little-rock/CLR-2026-778/_overview|CLR-2026-778]] corpus as the LRPD-side authorizing signature on the ACIC payment request memo (February 22, 2024) and the Guardian Alliance Technologies Account Activation Request (July 8, 2024), and as the named Chief in the September 2025 Flock renewal chain. ## Role and affiliations - Chief of Police, [[Little Rock Police Department]] - Reports to City Manager [[Delphone Hubbard]] - Final LRPD-side authority for surveillance-technology procurement memoranda directed up the chain of command ## Appearances in the corpus - **2024-02-22** — Signed ACIC Payment Authorization memo to Mayor [[Frank Scott, Jr.]], requesting approval for $43,950.00 ACIC service payment. Memo notes: "Upon approval this will be forwarded to Administrative Services Finance Manager Mrs. Mullins-Sanders for processing." CC: Bridgitte Newson (Executive Assistant), [[Latreasa Mullins-Sanders]], Asst Chief [[Troy Ellison]], Lt. [[Kenneth Baker]]. (Tier-1 corpus, [[_overview]], ACIC Renewal Quote 04.01.24 - 03.31.25.txt, p. 1) - **2024-07-08** — Signed Guardian Alliance Technologies Account Activation Request as "Chief of Police." Established the LRPD-Guardian relationship for background investigations effective for the February 2025 recruit class. (Tier-1 corpus, [[_overview]], Guardian/Signed_ Background Solutions Agreements with Guardian Alliance Technologies.txt, p. 3) - **2025-09 – 2025-10** — Named on the Flock LPR Renewal chain of command in the Phillips ↔ Bewley ↔ Prater ↔ Miller memo cascade preceding Resolution 16,846. (Tier-1 corpus, [[Flock LPR Renewal (Resolution 16846)]]) - **2024-08-06** — Identified in the Sgt. Whitaker Cellebrite-renewal memo via the handwritten annotation "Chief Miller, I recommend approval of this $22,577.92 expenditure" (this is the Asst Chief layer, not Helton directly, but the routing flows toward Helton). (Tier-1 corpus, [[_overview]], Dept. Approval Memo_2024.pdf) - **2024-05-24** — Listed as CC on the Apricot Software Approval Request memo from [[Latreasa Mullins-Sanders]] to Emily Cox (Acting City Manager). (Tier-1 corpus, [[_overview]], Apricot Software Approval Request 2024.txt) ### In PDFOI-2026-1874 (LRPD Flock emails) - **2026** — Helton forwarded a *Fortune* article on cities cancelling Flock ("de-flocking") to Lt. Courtney Bewley (cc Michael Miller, Jonathan Prater), directing staff to "continue to effectively compile our data to show how we're utilizing our systems professionally and ethically" and anticipating criticism "from some of those who see no value in the RTCC." This is a rare command-level commentary framing data-compilation as a defensive posture toward critics of the Real-Time Crime Center. ([[Chief Helton RTCC Defense Thread]], Emails 36-63.pdf p. 405 (printed 84)). - **2026-02-19** — Helton forwarded a Flock "Real-Time Road Safety" webinar invite (received at [email protected]) "FYI" to Sgt. Kyle Henson, cc Jason Follett, Michael Miller, and Lt. Courtney Bewley. ([[Chief Helton RTCC Defense Thread]], Emails 36-63.pdf p. 437 (printed 46)). ## Notes - Documented chief of police of the City of Little Rock during the [[sources/city-of-little-rock/CLR-2026-778/_overview|CLR-2026-778]] period (2024-2025). The corpus does not document a specific Helton appointment date; the prior corpus reference (Tier-3 archived Arkansas Times article, 2025) names him as the chief in office at the time of the Flock renewal. - Helton's signature pattern in the corpus is consistent: he signs the LRPD-side authorization memoranda directed *up* the chain (to the Mayor or City Manager) for procurement requests; he does not sign vendor-side execution documents (those are signed by the City Manager). - See [[Wayne Bewley]] for the predecessor chief named on the 2022 Fusus procurement.