# Conway PD Project Update — ARDOT Permits Series A nine-message thread (Feb 2 → Mar 11, 2026) in which Flock Project Manager **Garrett Yosenick** updates Chief Harris and Lt. Burningham on the **Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) permitting status** for the DOT-right-of-way cameras. The series anchors the deployment-completion timeline: ARDOT permits issued in waves Feb-Mar 2026, with installation rolling out behind permits and "remaining locations" expected up by mid-March 2026. Indirectly evidences the **DOT-permit paper trail** that the Conway PD supplemental FOIA Item J asks for, though the actual permit documents would be held by ARDOT (and would be the target of a separate ARDOT FOIA). ## What's inside **2026-02-02 11:25 — Garrett Yosenick → Burningham, cc James Allen (Flock):** > "I wanted to share an update on our project and advise that **we are pending issuance of ARDOT permits for the remaining devices.** That said, we are forecasting to have those permits in hand sometime during April to install during the following month." (Initial pending-status notification. Forecast at this point: ARDOT permits ~April 2026 → installation ~May 2026.) **2026-02-11 10:38 — Yosenick → Chief Harris, cc Burningham + Houston Whatley (Flock):** > "Good News - we have been issued permits for the remaining devices on our project, and I should have a tentative schedule put together in the coming weeks." (Forecast accelerated; ARDOT permits issued ~9 days after the pending-status email.) **2026-02-23 10:25 — Yosenick → Chief Harris, cc Burningham + Whatley:** > "We have the 1st batch of devices listed below scheduled to be installed before the end of the week, and I should have tentative schedule for the remaining devices available over the next few days." > > First batch (5 devices): > - P#002 — Dave Ward Dr @ Diane Ln WB > - P#006 — S Harkrider St @ Bronnie Ln SB > - P#001 — Dave Ward Dr @ Diane Ln EB > - F#012 — S Donaghey Ave @ Dave Ward Dr WB > - F#014 — Dave Ward Dr @ S Donaghey Ave EB (First batch of installations week of 2026-02-23. **Note the "P#" prefix** on three devices — likely a project-tracking ID distinct from the F# Flock-device-ID convention seen elsewhere. Either P# transitions to F# after install, or these are an additional set of cameras beyond the original 20 in the [[Flock Devices 2 (admin screenshot)]].) **2026-03-10 11:04 — Yosenick → Chief Harris, cc Burningham + Whatley:** > "The remaining locations on our project should be up and running by the end of the week." (Final installations targeted for week of 2026-03-10. **20-camera deployment substantially complete by mid-March 2026** — approximately 14 months after the 2025-01-23 onboarding kickoff.) **2026-03-11 08:53 — Burningham → Yosenick:** > (Burningham asks about Home Depot camera access; thread pivots from ARDOT permits to the Home Depot rollout.) **2026-03-11 10:36 — Yosenick → Burningham, cc Engage Success:** > "Let me bring in @Engage Success to initiate the process of getting access to the Home Depot devices." (Connection to the [[Home Depot Camera Sharing Series]] — Burningham requested Home Depot access concurrent with the 20-camera deployment completing.) **2026-04-03 16:14 — Engage Success (Gena Hatch) → Yosenick, cc Burningham:** > "It looks like your request has been logged but has not been completed yet and is in process. Please hang tight, and we will get this completed as soon as we hear back from the Home Depot." (Home Depot share processing was still pending three weeks later.) ## Key takeaways - **20-camera deployment completion: mid-March 2026.** 14 months after kickoff (2025-01-23); 5 months after the November 2024 mapping meeting; 15 months after the December 2024 DocuSign signature. The long delay was substantially driven by ARDOT permitting. - **ARDOT permits were the rate-limiting step.** Flock's PM forecasts in early February 2026 estimated ARDOT permits "in hand sometime during April"; they actually issued by 2026-02-11 — much earlier than expected, accelerating the install timeline by 6+ weeks. The original mapping-meeting plan (2024-11) anticipated installation in early-2025; the actual install ran 2025-Q3 (8 of 20 by 2025-07-01 per [[LPR Report First Half 2025]]) and concluded in 2026-Q1. - **The "P#" prefix on three devices (P#001, P#002, P#006) in the 2026-02-23 batch is anomalous.** All other Conway Flock device IDs in the corpus use the "F#" prefix (e.g., F#001-F#020 per [[Flock Devices 2 (admin screenshot)]]). The "P#" prefix may be: 1. A project-tracking ID that Flock assigns during permitting and converts to F# at install 2. A second-generation device that supplements the original F# set 3. An OCR/transcription artifact (unlikely — Yosenick's email is plain text) This remains an open question to clarify. - **Garrett Yosenick is the deployment-Project-Manager for "Majors" at Flock** — confirmed in his signature block ("Project Manager - Majors"). The "Majors" segment likely refers to large-municipality / high-revenue customers. Skylar Lindner (Senior PM - Core) handled the initial onboarding deployment per [[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!]]; Yosenick took over for the ARDOT-permitting / final-deployment phase. - **Houston Whatley appears as a Flock CC** — a Flock Territory Sales Manager for Texas who, after a 2026 reorganization, became the [[Fayetteville Police Department]]'s direct Flock point of contact (see [[Houston Whatley]]). - **The Home Depot rollout cuts into this thread.** The same Flock-Conway thread used for ARDOT permitting becomes the channel for Burningham to request Home Depot camera access — collapsing two distinct workstreams (DOT-permitted CPD camera deployment vs. private-business camera-sharing onboarding) into one operational conversation. The Engage Success / Customer Success "team" routes both. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Garrett Yosenick]] — Flock Project Manager (Majors); the deployment PM across this thread; also in [[Flock Cameras Apr 2026 City Council QA Thread]]. - [[Houston Whatley]] — Flock Territory Sales Manager (Texas); copied on the deployment-update emails; later the Fayetteville PD Flock point of contact. - [[James Allen]] — Flock Account Executive; copied on the 2026-02-02 update; later the Fayetteville PD Flock account rep. - [[Gena Hatch]] — Flock Customer Success Manager (also handles Home Depot share routing per [[Home Depot Camera Sharing Series]]). - [[Chris Harris]] — primary recipient of the Project Update emails. - [[Lt. Andrew Burningham]] — operational counterparty. - **Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT)** — permit authority for cameras in state-highway right-of-way. ## Concepts invoked - [[Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)]] - [[Flock Camera-as-a-Service Procurement Model]] — Flock manages permitting on customer's behalf as part of the bundled service. ## Events documented - *2026-02-02 — ARDOT permits pending.* - *2026-02-11 — ARDOT permits issued for remaining devices.* - *2026-02-23 — First install batch (5 devices) scheduled.* - *2026-03-10 → 2026-03-13 — Remaining install batch; 20-camera deployment substantially complete.* ## Cross-references - [[AR - Conway PD - Welcome to Flock!]] — January 2025 onboarding that initiated the deployment workflow. - [[Flock Devices 2 (admin screenshot)]] — the eventual deployed inventory (F#001-F#020 visible). - [[LPR Report First Half 2025]] — Burningham's July 2025 report confirming only 8 of 20 Flock cameras installed by report date; this series shows the remaining 12 came online Feb-Mar 2026. - [[Home Depot Camera Sharing Series]] — the concurrent private-business camera onboarding that piggy-backs on this thread. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **ARDOT permit documents themselves.** The Conway PD production contains the email correspondence ABOUT the permits but not the permits themselves. A candidate next step: FOIA to ARDOT for camera-permitting records for the Conway-area Flock deployment. Flock would have submitted the applications; ARDOT would have issued (or rejected) and tracked them. 2. **P# vs F# device-ID convention.** An open question to clarify whether P# devices are: (a) renamed to F# at install, (b) supplemental to the original 20, or (c) a permit-tracking artifact. 3. **Houston Whatley and James Allen.** Both are identified from the Fayetteville PD `PD-2026-1484` production: [[Houston Whatley]] is a Flock Territory Sales Manager (Texas) and [[James Allen]] a Flock Account Executive; both became Fayetteville PD's Flock contacts (see [[Flock Safety Procurement Courtship]]).