# ALPR Meeting with ARDOT Because ASP's fixed ALPR cameras sit on state-highway right-of-way, the deployment required [[Arkansas Department of Transportation|ARDOT]] cooperation for siting, power, and installation. Two threads document that coordination: Overton's August 2024 report of a meeting with ARDOT engineers, and the January 2025 project meetings with ARDOT's ITS/TSMO office. This is the corpus's first documentary anchor for **ASP–ARDOT ALPR coordination** (distinct from the county/municipal ARDOT permitting captured in [[ARDOT Right-of-Way Permitting for ALPR]]). ## What's inside ### `ALPR Meeting with ARDOT.msg` (2024-08-09) — Overton reports to command [[Dennis Overton|Overton]] writes to Colonel [[Jason Aaron]] (cc Ron Casey): > *"On Wednesday morning I met with three ARDOT Engineers at the ARDOT building in Little Rock. Chief engineer Joseph Hawkins, Engineer Hussain Alfaraj and Engineer Michael McHenry. The meeting was in regards to the installation of ALPR's at designated locations around Arkansas and how ARDOT along with Arkansas Highway Police's assistance this can best be implemented. They were all three very helpful but said that they would not be able to assist with the project until they were told from their Directors office that they would be participating and assisting."* (Tier-1 corpus, `ALPR Meeting with ARDOT.msg`). > *"He asked that we request their assistance through the Director and move forward from there."* (Tier-1 corpus, same file). ### `RE_ Leonardo - ASP LPR Project meeting.msg` (+ `(5)`) (2025-01-27) — power and installs on ARDOT infrastructure [[Craig Duncan]] convenes a working meeting with ARDOT's [[Bobby Allison]] (ITS Operations Supervisor, TSMO Division) and Leonard Turner (`[email protected]`): *"I wouldn't mind getting together Tuesday if you have time to talk about the power and installs of the ASP LPR equipment on your infrastructure."* Allison agrees (Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ Leonardo - ASP LPR Project meeting.msg`, `… (5).msg`). Leonardo's Ben Hedgecock and JWA's David Pierce are copied. ## Key takeaways - **ASP siting ALPRs "at designated locations around Arkansas" required ARDOT sign-off at the Director level.** The engineers would not assist *"until they were told from their Directors office that they would be participating"* (Tier-1 corpus, `ALPR Meeting with ARDOT.msg`) — locating the go/no-go for statewide ASP camera siting at ARDOT's executive office, not the engineering staff. - **The camera network is physically dependent on ARDOT infrastructure.** The project meetings concern *"the power and installs of the ASP LPR equipment on your [ARDOT] infrastructure"* (Tier-1 corpus, `RE_ Leonardo - ASP LPR Project meeting.msg`) — ASP cameras draw power from and mount on ARDOT assets, paralleling the "Power to the FCU provided by ASP/ADOT" agenda item in the [[Fixed-LPR Deployment and Street Sentry Site Surveys|deployment call]]. - **Arkansas Highway Police is named as an implementation partner.** Overton frames the rollout as ARDOT *"along with Arkansas Highway Police's assistance"* (Tier-1 corpus, `ALPR Meeting with ARDOT.msg`), consistent with the [[Arkansas Highway Police]] group later provisioned in the ELSAG domain. ## Cross-references - [[ARDOT Right-of-Way Permitting for ALPR]] — the permitting framework (documented on the county/municipal side); this ASP thread is the state-agency counterpart. - [[Fixed-LPR Deployment and Street Sentry Site Surveys]] — the survey/rollout logistics that flow from ARDOT approval. - [[Act 668 of 2025 — Internal ALPR-Law Summary]] — the ALPR statute framework in the same period. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **Did ARDOT's Director's office formally authorize participation?** The engineers deferred to the Director; whether and how that authorization issued is not in this ASP *sent*-mail set — a candidate for an ARDOT-side FOIA and the open "ARDOT rulemaking/policy" question flagged on [[ARDOT Right-of-Way Permitting for ALPR]]. 2. **Leonard Turner's ARDOT vs. DEA identity.** He appears here at `[email protected]` and elsewhere at `[email protected]`; see [[Leonard J. Turner]].