# Draft Attorney General Opinion Request and Routing This 37-page PDF is a printout from [[Charles Finkenbinder]]'s City Attorney mailbox. Its central record is [[Clayton Smith]]'s May 26 cover email and an attached draft request for an Arkansas Attorney General opinion on disclosure of vendor-hosted ALPR records. It also repeats earlier request and response chains, includes an unrelated asset-forfeiture thread on pages 29-33, and closes with Smith's July 23 legal-review and status emails. ## What's inside - Page 1 - Smith's May 26 email to Finkenbinder, copied to Chief [[Chris Harris]], subject "attached draft opinion request for your review." - Pages 2-9 - an unsigned ten-question draft addressed to Attorney General Tim Griffin. - Pages 10-28 - the cover discussion and repeated underlying FOIA request, response, and appeal material. - Pages 29-33 - a separate asset-forfeiture-ledger correspondence chain. - Pages 34-37 - Smith's July 23 request for legal review of requests 733, 734, and 760-763 and his follow-up on whether the draft was submitted, revised, or routed. ## Key takeaways - **The document calls itself a draft.** Smith's subject line is "attached draft opinion request for your review," and the attachment is named `ag opinion request-draft.pdf` (`doc16993620260803100035.pdf`, p. 1). - **The draft seeks broad interpretive guidance.** It says the requests involve "network-sharing exports, search exports, hot-list records, audit logs, access logs, and other internal vendor-hosted platform records" and that the City and CPD seek guidance "before this issue is litigated and before inconsistent practices develop among public agencies" (p. 2). - **The signature block contains a role-label anomaly.** The draft ends "Charles Finkenbinder / Prosecuting Attorney" (p. 9), while the correspondence identifies him as Conway City Attorney ([[City Attorney Review of ALPR Records Requests]], `doc16993720260803100106.pdf`, p. 1). The draft label is not evidence that he held or invoked a prosecuting-attorney office. - **CPD asked whether the request should come from the City Attorney or City.** Smith wrote that CPD did not want to request an opinion independently "if the request should properly come through your office or through the City" and asked whether Finkenbinder recommended an AG opinion or other formal guidance (`doc16993620260803100035.pdf`, pp. 10-11). - **The July 23 follow-up still asks whether anything was sent.** Smith's subject is "Attorney General Opinion Follow - UP FOIA Request" and asks Finkenbinder to advise whether the draft had been "submitted, revised, or routed" (p. 37). The PDF contains no transmittal to the Attorney General. ## People and organizations - [[Clayton Smith]] - author of the cover and follow-up emails. - [[Charles Finkenbinder]] - reviewer and proposed signatory. - [[Chris Harris]] and [[Drake Vickers]] - copied on the July 23 legal-review message (p. 34). - [[Conway Police Department]], [[City of Conway]], and the Office of the Arkansas Attorney General. ## Concepts and events - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] - [[Arkansas FOIA Electronic Records and Vendor Custody]] - [[Flock Audit Logs and Retention]] - [[2026-05-26 Conway PD Circulates Draft Attorney General Opinion Request]] ## Open questions / follow-ups - The produced record contains no evidence that the draft was submitted, revised into a final request, routed through an authorized official, acknowledged, or answered. - The ten questions are proposed legal questions, not Attorney General conclusions or court holdings.