# Jonathan Prater Major, Headquarters Division Commander, Little Rock Police Department, in office during the 2025 procurement cycle. Successor of [[Ty Tyrrell]] in the role. Documented in the [[sources/city-of-little-rock/CLR-2026-778/_overview|CLR-2026-778]] corpus as the recipient of Lt. [[Courtney Bewley]]'s Utility Renewal memo (2025-07-10) and as the author of the September 9, 2025 Flock Safety Contract Renewal memo to Asst Chief [[Micheal Miller]]. ## Role and affiliations - Major, Headquarters Division Commander, [[Little Rock Police Department]] (2025). - Reports to Asst Chief Executive Bureau ([[Micheal Miller]]). - Manager of the Headquarters Division procurement-recommendation chain. ## Appearances in the corpus - **2025-07-10** — Recipient of Lt. [[Courtney Bewley]]'s Utility Renewal memo recommending the $79,000 Polaris/Rocket Modems renewal. Approved/initialed by Prater. (Tier-1 corpus, [[_overview]], Utility Associates/APPROVED - Request for Utility Renewal with Rocket Modems Polaris ($79000.00).txt, p. 1) - **2025-09-09** — Authored Flock Safety Contract Renewal memo to Asst Chief [[Micheal Miller]]: "The department's Flock LPR cameras are a vital asset to the Real-Time Crime Center. Our goal of condensing the current three payments into a single payment would ease confusion for the department about what and when something has been paid. The proposed contract covers a 24-month period at a cost of $690,000 dollars and would run until May 17, 2027." (Tier-1 corpus, [[_overview]], 2025.09.09 LRPD Memorandum regarding Flock License Plate Reader Software Renewal.txt, p. 1) - **2025-09-30** — Listed as "Requestor Name" on the IT Technology Approval Form for the Flock LPR Contract Renewal (spelling "Johnathan Prater" on this document — likely a clerical variance). (Tier-1 corpus, [[Flock LPR Renewal (Resolution 16846)]]) ### In PDFOI-2026-1874 (LRPD Flock emails) - In the LRPD Flock email production, Maj. Prater flagged that the public Flock-renewal resolution language did not match LRPD's internal understanding of the purchase. He wrote: "I believe the language in the Flock resolution is wrong... this amount 77,500 should be for a one year renewal of our LPR software. I haven't seen anything requesting 30 new cameras." ([[Resolution 16489 and the 30-Cameras Discrepancy]], Emails 1-24.pdf p. 103) LRPD Finance manager Latreasa Mullins separately confirmed to the City Attorney's office that "We are not requesting to purchase any additional cameras, only to renew the subscription," while public FOIA correspondence and the Resolution 16489 language referenced "30 new cameras." (Emails 1-24.pdf pp. 103-104) This internal-vs-public discrepancy is tracked at [[T005 - Thirty New Cameras vs Renewal-Only]]. ## Notes - The first-name spelling "Johnathan" appears on the IT Technology Approval Form; "Jonathan" appears on the Flock renewal memo. Both spellings refer to the same person; this page uses "Jonathan" per the more frequent usage. - See [[Ty Tyrrell]] for the predecessor in the Headquarters Division Commander role. - See [[Courtney Bewley]] for the Lt. who reports up the chain to Prater.