# Ryan Roach Attorney, [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]]. Primary FOIA-correspondent on Joshua Dunlap's 2026-05-19 four-item (plus optional fifth) ALPR FOIA request to the [[Arkansas State Police]]. Roach is the legal-counsel-layer counterparty for ASP FOIA responses — the practical institutional analog of [[Drake Vickers]] at Conway PD, [[Kristin Knox]] at PCSO, or [[Allison Segars]] at City of Little Rock. Email: `[email protected]`. Roach signs his correspondence as *"Attorney, Department of Public Safety"* rather than as ASP-specific counsel, indicating the DPS-wide scope of his role. ## Role and affiliations - **Attorney, Arkansas Department of Public Safety** — the DPS-wide legal counsel responsible for FOIA responses across DPS divisions including ASP. The DPS-level positioning (rather than ASP-specific) is structurally relevant: Roach handles FOIA requests for ASP records but routes the substantive records-gathering to the operating units (ASP Fiscal Section for procurement; "the Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs" for operational records; ASP Grants Division for federal-grant records). His role is the legal-counsel layer over the agency-internal records-custodians. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[_overview]] — primary FOIA-correspondent on the ASP 2026-06-05 batch 1 production. - [[2026-06-05 Roach Route Map and Item-4 Disclaimer]] — the three-message thread (09:54 / 10:25 CDT) routing the five FOIA items to ASP's internal units and disclaiming the CJIS-Systems-Agency role for Item 4. - [[2026-06-05 Roach Delivery of ASP Item-1 Fiscal Records]] — the 12:56 CDT delivery of `1513_001.pdf` (Item 1 / Fiscal Section procurement records) plus the voluntary disclosure of ASP's optional non-ALPR Motorola/Watchguard dash-camera contracts. ## Key disclosures Roach's role in the corpus is shaped by three substantive disclosures during the 2026-06-05 correspondence cycle: 1. **The route map.** Roach disclosed ASP's internal records architecture: Item 1 → Fiscal Section; Items 2 + 3 → "the Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs"; Item 5 → Grants Division. 2. **The Item-4 disclaimer.** Roach explicitly disclaimed any ASP role in reviewing, auditing, or approving other agencies' or municipalities' use of ALPRs: *"to my knowledge ASP does not conduct any reviews, audits, or approvals of other agencies or municipalities and their use of ALRPs."* (Tier-1 corpus, Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd`, message `19e9863c17b09083`, 2026-06-05 10:25 CDT). This is the corpus's clearest documentary statement on the locus of CJIS-Systems-Agency responsibility for Arkansas ALPR oversight: it is not ASP. 3. **The optional Motorola/Watchguard offer.** Roach proactively distinguished ALPR contracts from non-ALPR dash-camera contracts and offered the latter on request: *"In the interest of full disclosure, we have contracts with Motorola/watchguard to provide us with our dash camera recording systems. Since these purchase orders and contracts do not relate to ALPRs in any way, they were not included in this release. However, if you would like to receive these documents as well, I can make them available upon request."* (Tier-1 corpus, Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd`, message `19e98ee80282de47`, 2026-06-05 12:56 CDT). ## Notes - Roach's correspondence register is **good-faith rolling release**: the route map, the Item-4 disclaimer, and the Motorola/Watchguard volunteer disclosure together establish a substantively-transparent FOIA-handling posture distinct from the more legally-defensive postures documented at Conway PD (PD-2026-477) and PCSO (#26-808 item-2 no-records). - Roach's 10:25 CDT clarification was issued less than 30 minutes after Joshua's 10:05 CDT request for clarification — a fast turnaround indicating Roach was actively engaged in the routing process at the time, not deferring it to a queue. - Roach is consistently CC'd with [[Jesi Feld]] on all correspondence. The role of Feld in the FOIA-response operation is not stated in the messages. - See [[2026-06-05 Roach Delivery of ASP Item-1 Fiscal Records]] for the full quoted language of Roach's transmittal of `1513_001.pdf`.