# Benton County SO Initial Surveillance Response The [[Benton County Sheriff's Office]] sent an initial substantive response on 2026-07-22 after consultation with its I.T. staff. The response consists of an email with eight Flock coordinate/site records and system-status statements, plus one native `SharedNetworks_2026_July_22.csv` export. The later [[benton-county-so/2026-08-03-p1873-permit-supplement/_overview|August 3 supplement]] adds P1873 and several operational clarifications, but larger sharing-history and statutory-report files remain offered on USB rather than delivered. ## What's inside - [[Benton County SO Camera Locations and System Status]] — eight exact coordinate records and agency statements about Flock sharing, WatchGuard/Motorola storage, drones, OH-58 aircraft, Marine Division equipment, sonar, and 1033 assets. - [[SharedNetworks 2026-07-22 Snapshot]] — a 1,944-row Flock topology export with reciprocal, inbound-only, and outbound-only organization relationships. ## Key takeaways - **Eight Flock site coordinates were disclosed.** Six were listed without an adverse status qualifier; two were expressly labeled “Not installed in permitting.” On 2026-08-03 the custodian said the two remain uninstalled and “all others are installed and operational”; the east/westbound point's device count remains unanswered ([[Benton County SO Camera Locations and System Status]], Gmail messages `19f8a34219dd9e6f` and `19fc92818daf13aa`). - **The map is an agency disclosure, not an as-built inventory.** No device IDs, installation dates, activation status, removal history, ownership fields, or native deployment-plan/GIS export accompanied the eight points. - **The sharing export is much broader than a local-Arkansas roster.** Its field labels show 734 reciprocal rows, 97 inbound-only rows, and 1,113 outbound-only rows, including the BCSO self-row. Excluding that self-row, 1,846 other organization rows have `Benton County AR SO` in `Networks I'm Sharing` ([[SharedNetworks 2026-07-22 Snapshot]], full-file field/count parse; `SharedNetworks_2026_July_22.csv`, header line 1). - **Configured topology is not activity evidence.** The CSV does not establish that any named organization searched BCSO data, the permissions or camera-level scope of a relationship, how a relationship was approved, whether it remained enabled after export, or the purpose/outcome of any lookup. - **On-premises WatchGuard posture.** The agency says its in-car and body-worn WatchGuard/Motorola cameras are not connected to cloud services and transfer locally over Wi-Fi to on-premises storage ([[Benton County SO Camera Locations and System Status]], Gmail message `19f8a34219dd9e6f`). - **Drone and aviation boundary.** The agency describes drones as ad hoc, not connected to ALPR or cloud programs, and not part of a Drone as First Responder auto-launch system. It says the OH-58 fleet has no downlink, with an older FLIR8500 on N134SD and only a spotlight on N131SD. - **Marine discrepancy is now bracketed.** The email says the Marine Division has no cameras on its boats, while the official Marine Unit page says it uses boat-mounted infrared cameras. On August 3 the custodian reported no responsive records and said the webpage most likely needs updating. [[T015 - Benton County Marine Camera Status]] treats stale web copy as the leading explanation while preserving the absent inventory/disposition trail. ## 2026-08-03 supplement - [[Benton County P1873 Flock Relocation Permit]] — approved Highway 12 relocation plan at `36.276600, -94.579146`, looking southeast; the completion-return page is blank. - [[benton-county-so/2026-08-03-p1873-permit-supplement/_overview|Benton County SO P1873 Permit Supplement]] — site-status clarification, active Motorola/WatchGuard model counts, County-custodian routing, and the pending USB offer. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Benton County Sheriff's Office]] — responding agency and Flock tenant. - [[Benton County]] — parent county government. - [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — ALPR and SharedNetworks platform. - [[Motorola Solutions]] — current owner/name associated with the WatchGuard in-car and body-worn system. - [[Conway Police Department]], [[Little Rock Police Department]], [[North Little Rock Police Department]], [[Jonesboro Police Department]], and other Arkansas agencies — selected reciprocal relationships in the CSV. - [[US Postal Inspection Service]], Midwest HIDTA, and Wright Patterson Air Force Base — selected federal or multijurisdictional rows illustrating that the configured topology is not limited to Arkansas municipal peers. ## Concepts invoked - [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] - [[Private-Business Camera Sharing into LE Networks]] - [[Digital Evidence Management Cloud]] - [[Flock Alpha and DJI Dock 3]] ## Events documented - [[2026-07-22 Benton County SO Sends Initial Surveillance Response]] ## Open questions / follow-ups - Confirm the request remains open through delivery and review of the offered USB files. - Produce the contracts, purchase and payment records, native inventories, policy/training records, statutory six-month ALPR reports, retained usage/audit exports, procurement and architecture records, and bounded implementation communications requested but not included here. - Produce current and historical SharedNetworks/Network Audit exports with effective/termination dates, user-role and permission fields, camera-level scope, and retained activity reports. - Clarify how many devices serve the dual-direction site and supply device-level lifecycle records for all eight disclosed sites. - Produce P1873 installation, inspection, acceptance, as-built, and relocation records and explain whether BCSO site record 1 is related. - Produce a dated Marine Division asset/disposition record sufficient to confirm the webpage update and historical equipment status.