# Willie Newman Fayetteville Police Department support-services staff member involved in the internal approval routing for the Axon ALPR trial agreement, and — signing as "Willie" — the author of the FOIA interim message that disclosed the loss of the trial's data. ## Role and affiliations - Support Services, [[Fayetteville Police Department]] (`[email protected]`). ## Appearances in the corpus - [[Axon Field Trial Agreement and City Authorization]] — on 2025-11-21 the Assistant Support Services Manager forwarded the Axon trial staff-review package to "Newman, Willie" "for potential approval next week." - FOIA correspondence — the 2026-05-21 interim message on `PD-2026-1484` ("Data Access - Axon Trail," Gmail thread `19e4b04db749769f`), reporting that "when our Axon ALPR trial ended, we lost access to all administration, data, hotlists, and logs related to ALPR," is signed "Willie." ## Notes `confidence: low` — the production anchors "Willie Newman" by name and email in the trial-approval routing; the FOIA interim message is signed only "Willie." The two are reasonably the same person (an FPD support-services staffer handling the records process), but the identification is an inference, not a stated fact. See [[Vendor-Controlled ALPR Trial Data]] for the substance of the interim message.