# Spring 2026 Citizen FOIA and Reconsideration Wave During April-May 2026, the Conway Mayor's Office received a cluster of civilian FOIA requests and agenda-reconsideration emails about the Flock Safety procurement. Across roughly eighteen files in this production — civilian-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. Civilian names and contact details are omitted from this page. ## What's inside The wave clusters into four distinct sub-threads: ### Sub-thread A — April 17 civilian submissions Two related items from the same civilian author: a same-day public statement to the Council and Mayor plus a FOIA request to the City Clerk. - **`Flock Camera and a negligent unanimous decision.msg`** — 2026-04-17 3:00 PM. Addressed to the eight Council members and Mayor Castleberry. The civilian author's name and personal address are omitted. Six questions asked why the contract was approved without competitive bidding or recorded discussion, what due diligence occurred, whether officials considered privacy/security/accountability concerns, whether the City would release contract/location/policy/sharing records, and whether the Council would reconsider the vote. 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). The same civilian author asked the City Clerk for seven categories of Flock records: the contract and amendments, invoices/payments, policies on retention/access/auditing/sharing/searches, deployed-camera counts and locations, Council agenda backup for item E-3 / O-25-09, and City-Flock communications from November 1, 2024 forward. City Clerk Denise Hurd forwarded the request to Felicia Rogers at 8:36 AM; 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 — April 21 agenda request and April 27 decline 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. A civilian requester asked the Mayor's-Office-operated Council Agenda mailbox to revisit the January 14, 2025 Flock approval and to address the basis for approval, waiver of competitive bidding, absence of recorded discussion, diligence before the vote, and release of contract and policy materials. The requester's name and contact details are omitted. - **Council Agenda reply (within the same .msg)** — 2026-04-27 11:22 AM, six days later. The Council Agenda account said the request had been received for the April 28 agenda but that, because the Council heard the item on January 14, 2025, it would not be placed on the upcoming agenda; further Flock-camera questions were directed to Conway PD. The salutation is omitted to avoid republishing the civilian's name. 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 civilian emails to Mayor Castleberry requested 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 distinct senders using a substantially similar message template. Names, personal email addresses, phone numbers, and residential addresses are omitted. | Date / time (CT) | Record note | |---|---| | 2026-05-04 21:03 | Civilian agenda-placement request | | 2026-05-04 21:06 | Civilian agenda-placement request; residential address present only in the raw source | | 2026-05-04 21:12 | Civilian agenda-placement request | | 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 — May 9 FOIA-portal-glitch package 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) — a civilian requester's cover note and three FOIA requests as PDFs. The requester's identity, organization, contact details, and home location are omitted. The cover note (2026-05-09 03:13 AM) asked the City to treat the attached PDFs as superseding any incomplete, fragmented, or duplicative portal submissions. 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 civilian author. A separate FOIA covered Flock-paid travel, conferences, gifts, hospitality, and vendor-paid benefits received by Conway PD officials. City Clerk forwarded it to Felicia Rogers at 1:38 PM. The subject overlaps an earlier requester filing, but civilian identities are not material to that overlap. The raw records contain overlapping civilian contact information across Sub-threads A and D. That identity-linkage question is not material to the surveillance investigation and is neither reproduced nor analyzed in the wiki. ## 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 is the cleanest statement. No procedural mechanism for reconsideration appears in the production, and no substantive response to the civilians' due-diligence, privacy, security, and transparency questions appears. - **Spring 2026 saw a concentrated, multi-party public-records and reconsideration effort.** Civilian submissions on April 17, April 21, May 4, and May 9 cluster within several weeks. The records do not establish whether the activity was independent or coordinated; the volume itself documents 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. - **A May 9 travel/gifts request overlapped an earlier requester's subject matter.** The overlap documents repeated civic interest in the same question; the civilians' identities are not analytically necessary. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Bart Castleberry]] — receives and forwards civilian Council/agenda 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. - Civilian requesters — identities and contact details omitted under the surveillance-PII rule. ## 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 request-and-decline 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 civilian emails carry names, personal email addresses, phone numbers, and—in some instances—residential addresses. Those values are preserved only in the immutable raw/extracted evidence layers and are omitted from the wiki. The same rule applies to civilian requesters and surveillance subjects even where an agency production disclosed the information. 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 civilians' oversight questions.** No substantive response appears in this production. The decline-to-reconsider/redirect-to-PD posture is a procedural disposition, not an answer. 3. **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 processed is open.