# Arkansas State Police `2026-06-05 batch 1 — Fiscal` — Production Overview The Arkansas State Police's first response to Joshua Dunlap's 2026-05-19 Arkansas FOIA request — the **first batch** of a five-item rolling production handled by [[Ryan Roach]] (Attorney, [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]]). Batch 1 contains the **Item 1** materials (procurement / contracts / invoices) gathered by ASP's [[ASP Fiscal Section|Fiscal Section]]. Roach delivered the batch on **2026-06-05 at 12:56 CDT** via Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` as a single attached PDF, `1513_001.pdf` (~2.0 MB, 32 pages, image-only). Joshua downloaded the attachment at 13:48 CDT and OCR completed the same afternoon. This is the corpus's **ninth production**, the **sixth jurisdiction**, and the **first state-LE-agency** respondent. Per Roach's transmittal: *"I have attached all of the requested items from part 1 of your request above. Please be advised that this includes a smaller paid invoice and a larger purchase order that has not been completed at this time. This should include everything that you have requested."* (Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd`, message `19e98ee80282de47`). **Items 2 (internal communications), 3 (usage/audit data), and 5 (grants) remain outstanding.** Item 4 (the CJIS-Systems-Agency role question) was effectively disclaimed by counsel earlier the same day — see [[2026-06-05 Roach Route Map and Item-4 Disclaimer]]. ## What's inside A single 32-page PDF, OCR'd from an image-only original. The document is an internal Fiscal-Section procurement-file packet covering the State of Arkansas–Leonardo/ELSAG ALPR Term Contract and the two purchase orders drawn against it. | File | Friendly page | Page count | Subject | |---|---|---|---| | `1513_001.pdf` (pages 17, 22-23, 25-30) | [[Term Contract 4600055190 and PO 4502235324 — Initial Leonardo ELSAG Buy]] | 9 | The State of Arkansas Term Contract (Contract No. 4600055190, valid 2024-08-06 → 2027-04-30, target value $460,294.80) and the first purchase order drawn against it (PO 4502235324, $481,469.23 inc tax) — the corpus's first state-LE-agency ALPR procurement | | `1513_001.pdf` (pages 1-2, 17-19, 20-21, 23-24) | [[PO 4502265167 and Invoice 55924ELSAG — Additional ELSAG Cameras]] | 8 | The "smaller paid invoice" referenced in Roach's transmittal: PO 4502265167 ($18,525.99 inc tax), John Wright Associates Invoice #55924ELSAG, the DPS 201-1 Procurement Request Form, the John Wright quote, and the AASIS payment-coding and tracking forms | | `1513_001.pdf` (pages 3-16, 32) | [[Leonardo Pick Lists and ASP Deployment Sites]] | 15 | Leonardo's internal pick lists from its Greensboro NC operations center, dated 2025-03-11 and 2025-03-13. The customer-information lines identify six ASP deployment sites on Arkansas Interstate highways | | `1513_001.pdf` (page 31) | [[HB 1202 Section 35 ARPA Appropriation Excerpt]] | 1 | Engrossed House Bill 1202 (Arkansas 2025 Legislative session), Section 35 — *"APPROPRIATION - AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OF 2021"* — appropriating federal ARPA pass-through funds to the DFA Disbursing Officer. The contextual statutory anchor for the production's A.0960.ARPERR funding code | ## FOIA correspondence trace Correspondence is in Gmail and cited by Gmail thread URL (per [[_overview]] convention). All correspondence for this production lives in Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd`. The contact addresses are `[email protected]` (Attorney, [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]], primary handler), `[email protected]` (CC on all messages, role not specified), and `[email protected]` (institutional intake). | Date / time (CDT) | Event | Channel | |---|---|---| | 2026-05-19 | Joshua files the four-item ALPR FOIA template with ASP (procurement / internal communications / usage data / CJIS-oversight; grants added as a fifth ask) | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` | | 2026-05-19 | Roach acknowledges receipt with a backlog warning | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` | | 2026-06-05 09:47 | Joshua sends a follow-up status check | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` | | 2026-06-05 09:54 | Roach replies with the three-division routing plan: Item 1 to Fiscal Section, Item 2 to "the Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs," Item 5 to the Grants Division | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` | | 2026-06-05 10:05 | Joshua replies asking for clarification on Items 3 and 4 | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` | | 2026-06-05 10:25 | Roach clarifies: Item 3 is bundled with Item 2 (routed to the Lieutenant); Item 4 is effectively disclaimed by counsel — see [[2026-06-05 Roach Route Map and Item-4 Disclaimer]] | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` | | 2026-06-05 12:56 | Roach delivers `1513_001.pdf` (Item 1 / Fiscal). Notes the production contains "a smaller paid invoice and a larger purchase order that has not been completed at this time." Voluntarily discloses ASP's non-ALPR Motorola/Watchguard dash-camera contracts as available on request | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd`; see [[2026-06-05 Roach Delivery of ASP Item-1 Fiscal Records]] | | 2026-06-05 EOD | Joshua replies accepting the Motorola/Watchguard offer; treating Item 4 as a no-records disposition by counsel; no-rush posture on Items 2/3/5 | Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd` (sent message) | Items 2, 3, and 5 remain to be delivered on a rolling basis. ## Key takeaways - **ASP's ALPR vendor is [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]], not [[Flock Safety, Inc.]].** Sold through reseller [[John Wright Associates, Inc.]] (DBA Marketing & Services Associates, 1111 W Abram St, Arlington TX). Leonardo's product line is **[[ELSAG ALPR Systems]]** — the same ELSAG product line that has been the Italian-parented Leonardo aerospace/defense conglomerate's plate-recognition arm since Leonardo's 2017 brand consolidation. **This is the corpus's first documented Arkansas Leonardo/ELSAG procurement, and the first Arkansas LE-agency ALPR procurement in the corpus that did not select Flock.** - **The procurement track is [[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle|cooperative purchasing]] via the [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)|Texas Region 14 ESC (NCPA) cooperative]] — Contract #05-68.** State of Arkansas Term Contract 4600055190 ([[Term Contract 4600055190 and PO 4502235324 — Initial Leonardo ELSAG Buy|Term Contract page]]) explicitly cites the cooperative source: *"Reference Tracking: Region 14 ESC-TX, Contract #05-68 (Cooperative Contract)"* (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 28). Same procurement-track CLASS as [[Little Rock Police Department|LRPD]]'s [[CLR-2026-778]] surveillance buys (OMNIA / Sourcewell / NASPO / Texas DIR). Now extended to the corpus's first state-LE-agency footprint. - **The "smaller paid invoice + larger uncompleted purchase order" structure Roach described is the term contract's two draws.** Larger draw: PO 4502235324 (issued 2024-08-19, $481,469.23 inc tax) — the initial system buy: 10 wireless modems, 10 F3 FCU-POE cameras, 16 F4 2L Cam 60ft 740nm POE, 9 F4 Cam 100ft 740nm POE, plus mounts/cables/EOC licenses/engineering days, "First Year Warranty Included," and "**One Time HIDTA LPR Network License Included**." Smaller draw: PO 4502265167 (issued 2025-02-24, $18,525.99 inc tax) — 2 additional F4 2L 60ft 740nm POE cameras + 1 EOC License + 1 Pole Mount 2 Cam Horizontal. Together: ~$500K total against the $460,294.80 net term-contract target. - **The funding source is federal [[ARPA Pass-Through Funding (Arkansas)|American Rescue Plan Act pass-through]].** The AASIS purchase tracking and procurement request forms consistently carry the fund/WBS code **`A.0960.ARPERR`** (sometimes OCR-rendered as `A.0960.APRPERR`; the contextually consistent rendering is `ARPERR`). Cost Center 456949; Asset# 800004054; GL "ASSET IN CONSTRUCTION." Page 31 of the production includes [[HB 1202 Section 35 ARPA Appropriation Excerpt|an excerpt of Engrossed House Bill 1202 §35]] — the 2025 Arkansas Legislative session's ARPA appropriation to the DFA Disbursing Officer. *Observation:* this is the corpus's third documented Arkansas LE-agency ALPR procurement funded by something other than the general fund, after Conway PD's asset-forfeiture funding (Ordinance O-25-09) and PCSO's pre-Flock federal PSN18 grant; it is the first directly-federal-ARPA-funded ALPR procurement in the corpus. - **The unnamed "Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs" referenced in Roach's Item-2/3 routing is named in the procurement records: [[Dennis Overton|Lt. Dennis Overton]].** Both POs identify the requestor as "LT DENNIS OVERTON, LOCATION: ASP HQ / ICP" (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, pp. 17, 23). His justification on the DPS 201-1 Procurement Request Form: *"To place automatic license plate readers on Interstates and US Highways throughout Arkansas / not to be used for speed enforcement."* (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 19). Overton is almost certainly the Lieutenant Roach referred to; final confirmation will come from the Items 2/3 batch when it arrives. - **The procurement is bundled with a [[HIDTA LPR Network|federal HIDTA LPR Network license]].** PO 4502235324 explicitly lists *"One Time HIDTA LPR Network License Included"* at the end of the line-item enumeration (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 26). HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area) is a federal program of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). The HIDTA LPR Network is a federal-funded multi-state plate-data-sharing system; bundling a HIDTA license into the procurement at contract-time wires the ASP deployment into a federal data-sharing infrastructure as a default operational state. This is the corpus's first documentary anchor for federal-LE ALPR-platform integration at the Arkansas state-LE level, structurally analogous to (but distinct in mechanism from) Flock's [[Federal Searches CSV]] pattern at Conway PD. - **The Item-4 disclaimer is the production's most analytically important documentary moment.** Roach's 10:25 CDT clarification: *"to my knowledge ASP does not conduct any reviews, audits, or approvals of other agencies or municipalities and their use of ALRPs. I do not believe our office would have any records related to request number 4, and that information would likely need to be requested directly from the agency with control over the ALPRs."* (Gmail thread `19e3d8ec9e0f6ccd`, message `19e9863c17b09083`). This is an **effective no-records disposition by counsel** — important documentary fact even though Roach did not issue a formal § 25-19-107 certification. The disclaimer negates the structural hypothesis the FOIA was designed to test (that ASP exercises a CJIS-Systems-Agency oversight role over Arkansas Flock-and-equivalent deployments) and shifts that locus of accountability toward the [[Arkansas Crime Information Center]] as the next-FOIA-target. - **The procurement falls below the State Procurement Bid threshold.** The DPS 201-1 Procurement Request Form's bid-requirements schedule (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 19) reads: *"$0-$20,000 No Bid Required / Over $20,000-$75,000 3 Bids Required / Over $75,000 State Procurement Bids."* The smaller PO ($18,525.99 inc tax / $17,055 net) is below the no-bid threshold; the larger PO ($481,469.23 inc tax) is technically above the $75,000 State Procurement Bid threshold but draws on a Term Contract (4600055190) that was itself entered via the [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)|Region 14 ESC cooperative]], so no fresh competitive bid was required for the line draw. *Observation, distinct from the record:* this is structurally identical to the cooperative-purchasing-vehicle bypass pattern documented at [[Little Rock Police Department|LRPD]] — the procurement is procurement-law-compliant through the cooperative-contract reference, not through fresh competition. - **Six ASP ALPR deployment sites on Arkansas Interstate corridors** are documented in the Leonardo pick lists (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, pp. 8-16). The Customer Information lines name: Site 1 *"I-30 E&WB Hope AR MM64.25"*; Site 2/6 *"Big Rock Twp I-530 N&SB"*; Site 3 *"I-40 E&WB Little Rock MM159"*; Site 4 *"Little Rock I-30 E&WB"*; Site 5 *"Maumelle I-40"*. Each site receives one F4 FCU-POE wireless camera plus one Airlink RV55-style wireless modem. The deployment is on state highways; the cross-applicability of [[A.C.A. § 27-52-110 — County Automated Enforcement Device Statute]] to ASP under the "department of state government that is operating outside of a municipality" limb is an open analytical question, with the same threshold-application turn (does Flock-/ELSAG-style plate recognition qualify as an "automated enforcement device" under (a)(1)(A)'s speeding-detection requirement) as in [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office|PCSO]]'s case. - **The "Annual budget exceeded" warning on the smaller PO is the production's most curious procurement-policy moment.** The page 21 SAP screen capture shows: *"Active availability control (Funds Management): / Annual budget exceeded by 11,486.65 USD (FM PB Availability Control)"* (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 21). The smaller PO 4502265167 was nonetheless processed and the records released to Joshua, so the warning appears to have been overridden or carried into a subsequent budget cycle. The corpus does not contain the override approval or explanation. - **An "Israel $1k" compliance checkbox appears on the Purchase Tracking Form**, indicating Arkansas's Act 710 of 2017 anti-BDS contract certification was on the routing checklist (Tier-1 corpus, `1513_001.pdf`, p. 18). Leonardo S.p.A., the Italian parent of [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]], makes the threshold relevant. Whether the checkbox was affirmatively checked or noted as not-applicable is not visible in the OCR — the field's value square is to the right of the label, and the OCR did not capture content (if any) in that square. > [!note] OCR fidelity caveat > The smaller PO's "Purchasing Official/Fiscal Officer" signature on page 17 is heavily OCR-garbled ("(Lwwer Pein tanya a had 2. CLF") and is not reliably identifiable from the text layer. The handwritten signature/date on the requestor line of the DPS 201-1 form on page 19 ("Z lob 225" near the signature) is similarly garbled — most-likely "2/06/25" but not certain. Substantive contract pages (PO header text, term contract, quote, requisition body) OCR cleanly; the form-tracking, screen-capture, and signature-block elements (pp. 1, 4, 6, 18, 21) carry the most OCR uncertainty. ## People and orgs mentioned ### Arkansas Department of Public Safety — Fiscal Section + FOIA - [[Ryan Roach]] — Attorney, Arkansas Department of Public Safety. Primary FOIA handler for the request; author of the three-message 6/5 routing-and-disclosure thread. - [[Jesi Feld]] — DPS staff CC'd on all correspondence. Role not specified in the production or in Roach's emails; most-likely Roach's paralegal or another DPS attorney. - [[Wanda Worley]] — ASP/DPS Procurement Official; contact on the term contract and the larger PO (`[email protected]`, 501-618-8728). - [[Anna Hawthorne-Pennington]] — ASP/DPS Procurement Manager; contact on the smaller PO (`[email protected]`, 501-618-8335). Signs in the corpus as "Anna Hawthorne-Pennington" but appears on the PO header as "Anna Pennington." ### Arkansas State Police — operational - [[Dennis Overton]] — Lieutenant, ASP HQ / ICP; named on both POs as the requestor; almost certainly the "Lieutenant in charge of ASP's ALPRs" Roach references in his Item-2/3 routing. ### Leonardo / ELSAG and reseller chain - [[Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC]] — the contracting vendor; ELSAG ALPR Systems division; 4221 Tudor Lane, Greensboro NC 27410-8105. - [[Leonardo S.p.A.]] — Italian parent corporation; Borsa Italiana ticker `LDO`. - [[ELSAG ALPR Systems]] — the product line. - [[Craig Duncan]] — Sr. Field Operations Manager - Southeast, Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions, LLC (`[email protected]`, 910-986-0596). - [[John Wright Associates, Inc.]] — Texas-based reseller (DBA Marketing & Service Associates); also the third-place bidder in [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office|PCSO]]'s [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Solicitation and Flock Safety Bid|RFP-23-003]] competitive process — the ASP production identifies what John Wright Associates actually sells, answering an open question from the PCSO production. - [[David Pierce]] — John Wright Associates sales contact (`[email protected]`, 682-718-5564). ## Concepts invoked - [[Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)]] — the technology class. - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] — §§ 12-12-1801-1808; governs Arkansas LE-agency ALPR operation, ASP included. The production does not document ASP's § 12-12-1805 practice-and-usage report (the first § 12-12-1805 obligation will come due during the production's deployment period; the report itself is not in this batch). - [[A.C.A. § 27-52-110 — County Automated Enforcement Device Statute]] — the 2023-amended Arkansas statute restricting county / state-department automated-enforcement-device use outside municipalities. The "department of state government that is operating outside of a municipality" limb potentially applies to ASP; the threshold-application question is whether ELSAG cameras qualify as "automated enforcement device[s]" under (a)(1)(A)'s speeding-detection requirement. - [[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle]] — the procurement-track class. ASP's procurement is the corpus's fourth documented instance. - [[NCPA Cooperative Purchasing (Region 14 ESC)]] — the specific cooperative (Texas Region 14 ESC) that ASP's term contract rides on. - [[HIDTA LPR Network]] — the federal ALPR-data-sharing program whose license is bundled into the ASP procurement. - [[ARPA Pass-Through Funding (Arkansas)]] — the federal-money funding mechanism that paid for the ASP system. - [[ALPR Procurement Below the Appropriation Line]] — the cross-jurisdiction synthesis pattern. ASP is the corpus's fourth jurisdiction documenting some variant of the pattern. ## Events documented - [[2024-08-06 ASP-Leonardo ELSAG Term Contract Executed]] (Contract 4600055190 effective date) - [[2024-08-19 ASP PO 4502235324 Issued for Initial ELSAG ALPR Buy]] (the $481K initial purchase) - [[2025-02-04 Lt Overton ELSAG Additional Cameras Procurement Request]] (the DPS 201-1 form date) - [[2025-02-24 ASP PO 4502265167 Issued for Additional ELSAG Cameras]] (the $18.5K additional buy) - [[2025-03 Leonardo Greensboro Pick-List Operations for ASP Deployment]] (the 3/11 and 3/13 pick-list dates) - [[2026-05-19 ASP FOIA Filed]] (the original FOIA filing) - [[2026-06-05 Roach Route Map and Item-4 Disclaimer]] (Roach's three-message route-map-and-disclaimer thread) - [[2026-06-05 Roach Delivery of ASP Item-1 Fiscal Records]] (the Item 1 / batch 1 delivery) ## Cross-references - [[Arkansas State Police]] — the operating agency for the procurement. - [[Arkansas Department of Public Safety]] — the parent department under which ASP sits. - [[John Wright Associates, Inc.]] — corpus cross-tie: the firm placed 3rd in PCSO's competitive RFP-23-003 against Flock, then won the ASP procurement under the cooperative-purchasing track. The PCSO production did not identify what John Wright Associates actually sells; this ASP production does (Leonardo/ELSAG). - [[Cooperative Purchasing Vehicle]] — the procurement track that ASP shares with LRPD's surveillance stack. - [[ALPR Procurement Below the Appropriation Line]] — the synthesis to which the ASP data point is added. - [[CLR-2026-778]] — the LRPD production whose cooperative-purchasing patterns are most directly comparable; LRPD's Motorola/Watchguard procurement is a structural analog of the ASP Motorola/Watchguard contracts Roach offered to provide. ## Surveillance-PII handling The production contains no plate scans, no driver/registrant personal information, no residential addresses, and no payment-routing or banking-account information. Officer identifying information is limited to Lt. Dennis Overton's name, work email (`[email protected]`), and unit identifier (ASP HQ / ICP), and the procurement-staff Wanda Worley and Anna Hawthorne-Pennington (work emails and work phone numbers). These are official addresses; no PII redaction is required. The Asset# (`800004054`) is a state-property accounting identifier and is citable. The fund / WBS / cost center identifiers (`A.0960.ARPERR` / `456949` / `5004604566` / `100158061`) are budget-line identifiers and are citable. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **Items 2, 3, 5 outstanding.** Roach committed to rolling release: Items 2 + 3 (internal communications + audit/usage data) from Lt. Overton; Item 5 (grants) from the ASP Grants Division. Expected on a rolling basis without an ETA. Watch. 2. ~~**Lt. Overton's "ICP" unit identifier not decoded.**~~ **Resolved 2026-06-05 evening** via Tier-2 web research: **ICP = Interstate Criminal Patrol**, ASP's operational interdiction arm that runs Gulf Coast HIDTA's Arkansas-Interstate work (primary public record, [ASP ICP HONORED AT HIDTA — 2026-04-28 DPS press release](../../../../web%20archive/2026-06-05/dps.arkansas.gov/asp-icp-honored-at-hidta-for-record-seizures-officer-of-the-year-recognition.md)). The ICP expansion sharpens the deployment-site-pattern reading: ASP's six documented Interstate deployment sites (I-30 Hope, I-30 Little Rock, I-40 Little Rock, I-40 Maumelle, I-530 Big Rock Twp) are exactly ICP's operational corridors, and the HIDTA LPR Network License bundling at procurement-time integrates the system into the federal HIDTA framework under which ICP operates. 3. **The "Annual budget exceeded by 11,486.65 USD" override.** The SAP availability-control warning on the smaller PO (page 21) does not appear elsewhere in the file with an override approval or fiscal-section explanation. A targeted follow-up (or a re-read of the eventual Item-2 / Item-5 communications) could clarify whether the warning was overridden by Worley, by the Colonel, or via a Funds Management ceiling adjustment. 4. **The "Israel $1k" checkbox status.** The Purchase Tracking Form's anti-BDS-compliance line is on the routing checklist but the value column is OCR-blank. Whether the Leonardo procurement triggered the Arkansas Act 710 of 2017 contract certification — and whether Leonardo (Italian-parented) provided a vendor disclosure on Israel-boycott posture — is not visible from this batch. 5. **The illegible signatures.** The "Purchasing Official/Fiscal Officer" signature on page 17 and the requestor signature on page 19 are not reliably identifiable from OCR. A raw-PDF visual confirmation would clarify who signed; the most likely candidates for the page-17 signature are Wanda Worley (procurement official) or someone above her in the Fiscal Section signing chain; the page-19 requestor signature is most-likely Lt. Overton or his immediate-supervisor on the procurement-request approval chain. 6. **Whether PCSO's redacted RFP-23-003 bid responses included a Leonardo/ELSAG proposal.** The cross-corpus tie via [[John Wright Associates, Inc.]] is now established: John Wright Associates is the Leonardo/ELSAG reseller, and they bid (and placed 3rd) at PCSO. Whether their PCSO bid was for an ELSAG system or for a different platform is hidden under PCSO's redaction. A targeted follow-up FOIA to Pulaski County could test this. 7. **The ASP § 12-12-1805 practice-and-usage report.** Once a six-month period of operation has elapsed since the system became operational (likely the second half of 2025), Arkansas's ALPR Act requires ASP to compile a public-facing practice-and-usage report. Whether ASP has compiled one and whether it has been preserved (the statute requires 18-month preservation) is a future-FOIA target. 8. **The non-ALPR Motorola/Watchguard ASP procurement.** Roach voluntarily disclosed and Joshua accepted the offer to receive ASP's Motorola/Watchguard dash-camera contracts. Their delivery (likely in a future batch) will test whether ASP's Watchguard procurement uses the same Sourcewell #101223-MOT cooperative vehicle as [[Little Rock Police Department|LRPD]]'s Motorola/Watchguard M500 procurement (see [[Motorola Solutions]]). Cross-corpus comparison is the natural next step when the records arrive.