# Act 668 of 2025 — Internal ALPR-Law Summary In May 2025, ASP Sergeant [[Matt Foster]] circulated an internal summary of **Act 668 of 2025**, the amendment to Arkansas's [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act|Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] (§§ 12-12-1801 et seq.). It is Tier-1 evidence of how ASP internally understood the new law; [[Dennis Overton|Lt. Overton]] welcomed it (*"Yeah. That's going to be awesome for law enforcement"*). > [!note] Tier discipline > This page documents **ASP's internal summary** of Act 668 (a sergeant's characterization), not the statute text itself. The authoritative enacted language has now been independently archived from the Arkansas General Assembly (primary public record, [Act 668 of 2025](../../../../web%20archive/2026-07-20/arkleg.state.ar.us/act-668-2025.md)). Quotations below remain quotations of the ASP email, not of the Act. ## What's inside ### `Re_ LPR Law Amendment.msg` (2025-05-14) Sgt. [[Matt Foster]] (ASP; Arkansas Human Trafficking Coordinator) sends Overton and ICP officers Chase Melder, Rockey Rapert, and Tim Callison a summary headed *"Summary of Act 668 (2025) – Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) System Law Update."* Its stated purpose: > *"Act 668 amends Arkansas's existing Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) System Act to authorize private landowners, leaseholders, and commercial businesses to use ALPRs under specific conditions, while reinforcing data privacy and operational limitations for all users."* (Tier-1 corpus, `Re_ LPR Law Amendment .msg`). Key provisions, as summarized in the ASP email (Tier-1 corpus, same file): - **§ 12-12-1803 — expanded authorized users:** previously "restricted mainly to law enforcement and parking enforcement"; now also private landowners/leaseholders/commercial businesses (to promote public safety, deter crime, monitor private property including private roads) and *"Arkansas Highway Police Division for commercial vehicle compliance at weigh stations."* - **§ 12-12-1804 — data use and retention:** private users max 60 days; governmental users max 150 days; law enforcement in an active investigation until it concludes; no selling/trading/exchanging plate data for commercial purposes; governmental subpoenas required to compel release from non-LE users. - **§ 12-12-1805 — transparency:** all users compile statistics every six months (plates scanned, alerts/matches, outcomes), preserve data 18 months, publish data-handling rules; private users must report to the Legislative Council on request. - **§ 12-12-1807 — enforcement:** the Arkansas Attorney General may enforce violations under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Overton's reply: *"Yeah. That's going to be awesome for law enforcement"* (Tier-1 corpus, same file). ## Key takeaways - **The source gap is resolved.** Comparison with the enacted act confirms the summary's principal subjects—expanded authorized users, 60/150-day tiers, investigation preservation, six-month statistics, public policies, private reporting on Legislative Council request, and Attorney General enforcement. The email compresses details and cannot substitute for the enacted text, including the 24-hour update clause, exact subpoena language, third-party processor contract restrictions, destruction triggers, and evidentiary-exclusion provision. - **Act 668 is new to the corpus and post-dates ASP's deployment.** ASP's ELSAG procurement and initial installs (2024) precede this May 2025 amendment; the internal summary shows ASP tracking the legal framework governing its own operation. - **The amendment explicitly names Arkansas Highway Police at weigh stations.** The § 12-12-1803 expansion calls out *"Arkansas Highway Police Division for commercial vehicle compliance at weigh stations"* (Tier-1 corpus, `Re_ LPR Law Amendment .msg`) — dovetailing with the [[Arkansas Highway Police]] group provisioned in ASP's ELSAG domain (see [[ASP–Houston HIDTA MOU and ELSAG Domain Architecture]]). - **The § 12-12-1805 reporting duty is the same provision the Federal Public Defender invoked.** The six-month public-reporting and 18-month-preservation requirements summarized here are exactly what the [[Federal Public Defender FOIA and the No-LPR-System Position|Federal Public Defender]] cited in arguing ASP is a governmental "user" subject to the Act. Whether ASP has compiled its § 12-12-1805 reports remains an open corpus question. ## Cross-references - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] — the underlying statute (concept page to be reconciled with Tier-2 text, including Act 668). - [[Federal Public Defender FOIA and the No-LPR-System Position]] — the "use vs. have" dispute turning on § 12-12-1805. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. ~~**Fetch and archive the Act 668 text (Tier-2).**~~ **Resolved 2026-07-20:** the General Assembly's enacted PDF is archived and reconciled above. 2. **Has ASP compiled and made available its § 12-12-1805 six-month reports and public policies?** None appears in this production.