# Act 668 of 2025 ARDOT produced a copy of enacted **Act 668 of 2025**, approved April 16, 2025, amending Arkansas's Automatic License Plate Reader System Act. This Tier-1 copy establishes that ARDOT possessed and used the enrolled act during its rulemaking; the Arkansas General Assembly's independently archived copy controls as the Tier-2 legal authority (primary public record, [Act 668 of 2025](../../../../web%20archive/2026-07-20/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-668-2025.md)). ## What's inside - **Authorized uses.** Section 2 retains law-enforcement comparison with specified motor-vehicle and criminal-justice databases and adds private-property/public-safety uses and Arkansas Highway Police weigh-station use (`Act_668_of_2025_-_LPRs_by_Individuals__002_.pdf`, p. 2, “By the Arkansas Highway Police Division ... for the electronic verification of registration, logs, and other compliance data”). - **Tiered retention.** Private users are limited to 60 days and other eligible entities to 150 days, subject to the law-enforcement investigation/criminal-action preservation rule (pp. 2-3, “shall be destroyed at the conclusion”). - **Updates and sharing.** A governmental law-enforcement user must update captured plate data every 24 hours when updates are available; government sale/trade/exchange is barred, defined law-enforcement sharing is allowed for evidence of an offense, and non-law-enforcement release may be compelled only through the enacted subpoena provision (p. 3). - **Private processing.** A private user may share with a third-party asset-protection processor only under a contract restricting purpose and retention to no more than 60 days (p. 3). - **Public reporting and policies.** Covered public users must compile the listed statistics every six months, preserve them 18 months, and make capture/retention/destruction policies public. Failure to promulgate the required policies is grounds for evidentiary exclusion (p. 4). - **Private reporting and enforcement.** Private users compile six-month scan/match figures and must provide reports to the Legislative Council when its chairs request them. The Attorney General may enforce violations through the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (p. 5). ## Key takeaways The enacted text resolves the earlier wiki gap created by stale pre-2025 code reproductions. Arkansas law no longer contains a single flat retention rule for every eligible user. It also makes compliance a records question: authorized purpose, tenant retention, update history, sharing/dissemination, policy publication, and six-month statistics must be tested against actual agency and vendor records rather than inferred from a product page. ## Cross-references - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] — current-law concept page recompiled against this act. - [[Act 668 of 2025 — Internal ALPR-Law Summary]] — ASP's internal characterization, now checked against the enacted text. - [[T008 - Post-Comment LPR Rule Version Divergence]] — Act 668 is settled; ARDOT's final merged rule branch is not. ## Open questions / follow-ups - Which Arkansas agencies have published the policies and six-month statistics required by the amended act? - What records show 24-hour updates when available, extended-investigation retention, destruction at conclusion, and interagency dissemination?