# Captain Joe Garza **Captain, Pulaski County Sheriff's Office.** Email `[email protected]`. The PCSO operational point-of-contact for the [[Flock Safety, Inc.|Flock]] ALPR procurement and the named "Notice" contact under the executed MSA § 11.15. Also one of the 5 PCSO personnel on the RFP-23-003 evaluation panel. The corpus's references to "Sgt. Garza" and "SGT Garza" are interchangeable with "Captain Garza" — Garza is referenced in multiple ranks across the corpus, suggesting either an OCR/transcription confusion or a promotion during the corpus-documented period. ## Role and affiliations - **Captain, [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]]** - The MSA's § 11.15 designated Notices contact (the operational point-of-contact for Flock to reach PCSO on contractual matters) - One of 5 RFP-23-003 evaluators (alongside Chief Deputy [[Earnest Whitten]], Major [[Tony Jordan]], Lt. [[Chris Holmes]], and Captain [[Greg Evans]]) ## Appearances in the corpus ### RFP-23-003 evaluation panel (2023) - **[[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Bid Tabulation and Evaluator Scoring]]** — One of the 5 PCSO evaluators who scored the four competing vendor bids. All 5 evaluators awarded Flock 100/100; Garza's individual rubric scores for Flock matched. ### MSA negotiation (October 2023) - **[[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)]]** — CC'd on the [[Tashika Keown]]↔[[Philip Nanni]] negotiation thread throughout October 2023. Forwarded the initial Flock contract draft from Nanni to Keown on October 2, 2023 with the note *"Not sure who signs this, but Phil sent it to me."* - Asked Keown the deployment-process question on October 2, 2023: *"So Phil is asking about sending over the contract to be signed. That needs to go to you for the judge right? And then the payment voucher, does that need to wait on the contract signing? Or can our finance start that now?"* — i.e., Garza is operationally familiar with the PCSO-internal contract-execution workflow. ### Notices contact under the executed MSA (November 2023+) - Per MSA § 11.15: *"Customer NOTICES ADDRESS: ADDRESS: Pulaski County Sheriff's Office 2900 South Woodrow St. Little Rock, AR 72204 / ATTN: Captain Joe Garza / EMAIL: [email protected]"* — the contract designates Garza as the operational contractual-notice contact, supplanting any general PCSO admin address. ## Notes - **Garza's role is the operational PCSO-Flock interface.** He sits at the intersection of (a) PCSO's law-enforcement operations, (b) the contract-administration workflow with [[Pulaski County Purchasing Department]], and (c) Flock's vendor-side account management. The corpus does not document whether Garza became PCSO's "Flock administrator" (the analog of Conway PD's [[Lt. Andrew Burningham]] in the audit-log / hot-list / network-sharing administration role). - **A pending follow-up question from PCSO `#26-808`:** The June 1, 2026 closure of PCSO #26-808 item 2 (internal communications) returned "no records found" after a PCSO IT search. *Whether Garza's inbox was searched* — given his role as MSA Notices contact and his October 2023 operational engagement with Flock — is unknown from the production. The PCSO IT search's scope is a documentary follow-up. - The rank confusion ("Sgt. Garza" / "Captain Garza") may reflect a real promotion during the 2023-2026 period. The corpus does not directly document the promotion. The MSA § 11.15 designation as "Captain Joe Garza" is the most recent rank-evidence (October-November 2023). Email signatures and CCs over the October 2023 thread carry consistent contact info but inconsistent rank. - Garza's role as one of the 5 evaluators on RFP-23-003 means he had input into the substantive selection of Flock. His subsequent role as the operational contract-execution point and the MSA Notices contact creates an institutional continuity from procurement-decision to operational-deployment that the corpus documents nowhere else as cleanly.