# Spring 2026 Citizen FOIA and Reconsideration Wave During April-May 2026, the Conway Mayor's Office received a coordinated wave of citizen FOIA requests and agenda-reconsideration emails about the Flock Safety procurement. Across roughly eighteen files in this production — citizen-authored emails, the Mayor's Office's formal decline of reconsideration, and forwarded FOIA submissions from the City Clerk — the records document the institutional posture the Mayor's Office took: declining to revisit the January 14, 2025 vote and redirecting substantive inquiries to the Police Department. Joshua's own `FOIA-2026-125` (City Clerk) and `FOIA-2026-127` (Mayor's Office) were filed on May 19, 2026, two and a half weeks after the wave's peak. ## What's inside The wave clusters into four distinct sub-threads: ### Sub-thread A — Jacquiline Dickens / "Jacqui Landri" (2026-04-17) Two related items from the same author. Same-day public statement to the Council and Mayor, plus a same-day FOIA request to the City Clerk. - **`Flock Camera and a negligent unanimous decision.msg`** — 2026-04-17 3:00 PM. Author signs as "Jacqui Landri," writing from `[email protected]`. Addressed to the eight Council members and Mayor Castleberry. Six pointed questions: > *(1) Why was a contract of this size approved without competitive bidding or public discussion? (2) Why was there no recorded discussion in the minutes before the vote? (3) What due diligence was performed on Flock Safety before approval? (4) Was the council informed of concerns involving Flock's privacy practices, employee access, data security, and broader accountability issues? (5) Will the city release the full contract, camera locations, retention policies, access policies, and data-sharing arrangements? (6) When will the council place this contract back on the docket for public reconsideration?* Castleberry forwarded the email at 3:54 PM (54 minutes later) to Chief Chris Harris, City Attorney Charles Finkenbinder, Communications Coordinator Bobby M. Kelly III, and Chief of Staff Felicia Rogers. - **`FOIA.msg` / `FOIA (1).msg`** — 2026-04-17 1:56 AM (~13 hours before the Council email). Author signs *"Jacquiline Dickens / [email protected] / 5015816031"* (same email account; same phone number that recurs later as Josiah Dickens's contact — see Sub-thread D). FOIA addressed to the City Clerk asking for seven categories of Flock records: the contract, exhibits/amendments, invoices/payments, policies on retention/access/auditing/sharing/searches, deployed-camera counts and locations, the Council agenda backup for item E-3 / O-25-09, and all City-Flock communications November 1, 2024 through "the present." City Clerk Denise Hurd forwarded to Felicia Rogers at 8:36 AM the same day; Rogers replied at 11:22 AM: *"This request has been entered into our system. Can you also cc Adrian on these? Thanks"* ("Adrian" = Adrian Moore, Executive Assistant in the Mayor's Office). ### Sub-thread B — Brick "Rick" Harvey (2026-04-21 → 2026-04-27) A formal Agenda Submission Request and the Mayor's-Office decline. - **`Agenda Submission Request – Public Review and Reconsideration of January 14 2025 Flock Safety Approval.msg`** and the `(1)` variant — 2026-04-21 11:45 AM. Author "Brick Harvey" (signing as "Rick Harvey"), writing from `[email protected]`. Addressed to `[email protected]` (the Council Agenda mailbox the Mayor's Office operates). Subject: *"Public Review and Reconsideration of the January 14, 2025 Approval of the Flock Safety Contract for the Conway Police Department."* The request asks the Council to **"publicly address the basis for the approval, the waiver of competitive bidding, the absence of meaningful recorded discussion in the meeting minutes, the diligence performed before the vote, and the release of the relevant contract and policy materials."** - **Council Agenda reply (within the same .msg)** — 2026-04-27 11:22 AM, six days after Harvey's submission. The Council Agenda account (operated by the Mayor's Office) responds: > *"Mr. Harvey, Our apologies for the delayed response in getting back to you. Your Council request was received for placement on the April 28 agenda. There were no attachments included. **However, the City Council heard this item on January 14, 2025, and it will not be included on the upcoming agenda.** If you have any questions or concerns regarding the flock cameras, please feel free to reach out to the Conway Police Department."* This is the **Mayor's-Office posture statement** on whether the Flock procurement is open to public reconsideration: no, the matter is concluded; further questions go to the police department. ### Sub-thread C — May 12 agenda-placement requests (2026-05-04 evening) A volume of independent citizen emails to Mayor Castleberry requesting Flock Safety placement on the May 12, 2026 Council agenda. The seven files in this sub-cluster — *"Request to place Flock Safety contract on May 12 City Council agenda.msg"* × 4 and *"Request to place flock safety contract on May 12th agenda.msg"* × 3 — capture emails from distinct individuals using a substantially similar message template: | Date / time (CT) | Author | Address | |---|---|---| | 2026-05-04 21:03 | Janssen Eberle (signed); from address `[email protected]` | — | | 2026-05-04 21:06 | Jessi Baker; `[email protected]` | residential address present in the source; not reproduced here | | 2026-05-04 21:12 | Joeli Sowards; `[email protected]` | — | | 2026-05-04 (further) | additional senders captured in the remaining variant files | — | Template substance: > *"I am requesting that the Flock Safety contract be placed on the agenda for the May 12, 2026 Conway City Council meeting. I am concerned about the privacy implications of this system and believe residents deserve a clear public discussion of how it is used, what safeguards are in place, and what oversight exists. This issue should be addressed openly by the Council. Please confirm receipt of this request and whether it will be included on the agenda."* The Mayor's Office's response to these emails is not directly documented in the production. Whether the Flock Safety contract appeared on the May 12 agenda is not in this corpus; Joshua's `FOIA-2026-127` was filed on May 19 — one week after the requested-agenda date. ### Sub-thread D — Josiah Dickens / Blue Box Studios FOIA-portal-glitch package (2026-05-09) Three Flock-related FOIA requests submitted directly to the City Clerk by PDF, citing JustFOIA-portal formatting issues. - **`FOIA Portal Glitch.pdf`** (175 KB), `(1).pdf` (187 KB), `(2).pdf` (73 KB) — the cover note and the three FOIA requests as PDFs. Author: Josiah Dickens, Blue Box Studios, `[email protected]`, Greenbrier AR. The cover note (2026-05-09 03:13 AM): > *"I am resending these Flock-related FOIA requests together in PDF form because I believe some of my earlier submissions may have been incomplete due to portal formatting or pasted text not carrying over correctly. For clarity and to avoid any duplicate or fragmented processing, please treat the attached PDFs as superseding any earlier incomplete, partial, glitched, or duplicative versions of the same requests."* City Clerk Denise Hurd forwarded the package to Felicia Rogers and Adrian Moore at 6:40 PM the same day. The three requests sought, respectively: (i) the complete Flock Safety **search, query, audit, user activity, access, export, download, sharing, and user-account log records** for Conway PD from system activation through the request date; (ii) Flock-records for specified coordinates and timestamps; (iii) communications. - **`Arkansas FOIA Request - Flock Safety Travel Gifts Hospitality and Vendor-Paid Benefits.msg`** and `(1).msg` — 2026-05-09 02:36 AM, same author. A separate FOIA covering Flock-Safety-paid travel, conferences, gifts, hospitality, and vendor-paid benefits received by Conway PD officials. City Clerk forwarded to Felicia Rogers at 1:38 PM. *(Note: the FOIA covers the same subject matter Joshua's earlier `FOIA-2026-83` covered, filed several months earlier by Joshua.)* The author signs across these submissions as "Josiah Dickens" (Blue Box Studios). The phone number `501-581-6031` listed on the cover note **matches the phone number ("5015816031") signed under the name "Jacquiline Dickens"** in Sub-thread A's `FOIA.msg`. The two names — "Jacquiline Dickens" / "Jacqui Landri" and "Josiah Dickens" — share at minimum a phone-contact identity. The corpus does not resolve whether they are the same individual operating under different names or related individuals. ## Key takeaways - **The Mayor's Office's formal institutional posture is documented on the face of the record: the January 14, 2025 Council vote is treated as dispositive; further inquiries are routed to the Police Department.** The April 27, 2026 Council Agenda response to Harvey is the cleanest statement of this. There is no procedural mechanism documented for Council reconsideration of a passed ordinance absent the Mayor's-Office putting it back on the agenda. The Mayor's Office did not, in this production, give a substantive answer to the six questions raised by Dickens / Landri or the five raised by Harvey. - **Spring 2026 saw a concentrated, multi-party public records and reconsideration effort.** The Dickens / Landri emails (April 17), the Harvey submission (April 21), the multiple May 4 agenda-placement emails, the Josiah Dickens FOIA-glitch package (May 9), and Joshua's two FOIAs (May 19) cluster into a five-week period. Independent or coordinated is not resolvable from these records. The volume itself is information about civic engagement. - **The City Clerk's referral pattern is consistent: Flock FOIAs route to Felicia Rogers at the Mayor's Office and to Adrian Moore in parallel.** Denise Hurd (Clerk) forwarded every Flock-mentioning FOIA in this production to those two addresses. The Mayor's Office is the central record-keeper for Flock matters. - **Joshua's `FOIA-2026-83`-type travel-gifts FOIA was independently filed by Josiah Dickens.** Joshua had already filed a Flock-related travel-gifts FOIA at an earlier date (`FOIA-2026-83`). The Dickens May 9 travel-gifts FOIA covers materially the same subject matter. This is independent civic engagement on the same investigative question. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Bart Castleberry]] — receives the Dickens / Landri Council email; forwards to staff. Receives the Jessi Baker / Janssen Eberle / Joeli Sowards May 4 emails. - [[Felicia Rogers]] — receives forwarded citizen FOIAs from the City Clerk; routes through the Mayor's Office system. - [[Denise Hurd]] — City Clerk; forwards every Flock-mentioning citizen submission to the Mayor's Office. - "Adrian Moore" — Mayor's Office Executive Assistant; co-recipient of all citizen-FOIA forwards. - "Bobby M. Kelly III" — Mayor's Office Communications Coordinator; cc'd on the Castleberry forward of the Landri email. - [[Chris Harris]] — Police Chief; cc'd on the Castleberry forward; the redirect-to in the Mayor's Office decline. - "Charles Finkenbinder" — City Attorney; cc'd on the Castleberry forward. - "Council Agenda" — `[email protected]`, the Mayor's-Office-operated Council-Agenda mailbox; author of the April 27 decline. - "Jacquiline Dickens" / "Jacqui Landri" — citizen FOIA requester and author of the April 17 Council statement. - "Brick (Rick) Harvey" — citizen Agenda Submission requester. - "Josiah Dickens" — citizen FOIA requester; Blue Box Studios. - "Janssen Eberle", "Jessi Baker", "Joeli Sowards" — citizen May 4 agenda-placement requesters. ## Concepts invoked - [[Surveillance Vendor Capture - Roadmap Influence]] — the citizen-pressure → Flock-talking-points sequence sits across this source page and [[Flock Talking Points to Mayor's Office April 2026]]. ## Events documented - [[2026-04 Mayor Office Declines Flock Reconsideration Agenda Request]] — the April 21 / April 27 Harvey exchange. ## Cross-references - [[_overview]] (`FOIA-2026-127`). - [[Flock Talking Points to Mayor's Office April 2026]] — Burningham's request to Flock for talking points "for our city council" lands at Mayor Castleberry's inbox the same week as Harvey's reconsideration submission. - [[Flock Cameras Apr 2026 City Council QA Thread]] (`PD-2026-354`) — the CPD-side view of the same April 2026 oversight moment. - [[2026-04 Council Questions Flock Information Security]] — extended event. ## Surveillance-PII handling The citizen FOIA emails carry **personal identifying information** for each requester: full name, personal email address, in several cases a residential address (Jessi Baker's `8 Stowe Cv` address, Josiah Dickens's `157 E. Cadron Ridge Rd Greenbrier AR 72058`), and phone numbers. The wiki names the citizens by name where the records do (their names appear on a published municipal-record document and the records were obtained through Joshua's own FOIA), but **does not reproduce addresses, phone numbers, or full email-address strings.** The principle is that surveillance PII not be republished even where the public record carries it; that applies equally to citizen FOIA requesters and to surveillance subjects. A second category — Major Clay Smith's *"FOIA Filled"* file from October 2025, containing his ChatGPT export with a draft press release identifying suspect physical description — is not part of this Flock-FOIA cluster but is in the production through the Mayor's Office's keyword sweep on "FOIA"; the suspect description is not reproduced. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **Whether the Flock contract appeared on the May 12, 2026 Council agenda.** Not visible in this production; the agenda itself is the next reasonable record to request from the City Clerk if the answer matters. 2. **The Mayor's Office substantive response (if any) to the six questions Landri raised and the five Harvey raised.** No substantive response appears in this production. The Mayor's-Office posture (decline-to-reconsider; redirect to PD) is a procedural disposition, not an answer. 3. **Dickens / Landri identity.** The shared phone number `5015816031` across "Jacquiline Dickens" and "Josiah Dickens" sign-offs identifies a phone-contact common point but does not resolve whether these are one author or related authors. Not load-bearing for the investigation; left unresolved. 4. **The earlier citizen FOIAs `FOIA-2026-81` / `82` / `83` / `104` / `105`.** Seven JustFOIA confirmation messages were swept into this production. The substance of the underlying requests is not in this corpus; whether they include further Flock-related citizen FOIAs the City Clerk and Mayor's Office have already processed is open.