# Escambia County FL SO Hot List Share
The single documentary example in the corpus of an **out-of-state sheriff's office sharing a custom hot list directly with Conway PD**. The 2026-01-22 auto-notification from Flock that **Brittany Smith at Escambia County (FL) Sheriff's Office** has shared a custom hot list with Lt. Burningham at Conway PD. Distance: ~700 miles southeast of Conway. The cross-jurisdictional reach is significant in itself; the share is a hot list (license plates of interest), not raw camera footage, and operates as an alert channel rather than a search channel.
## What's inside
Verbatim notification body:
> Great News! Brittany Smith at Escambia County FL SO has shared their custom Hot List with you, giving you and your organization the ability to collaborate more effectively.
>
> To begin receiving hits for this list, you must enable your organization as an audience.
> [admin-UI instructions: Alerts → Custom Hot List → Shared Lists → triple-dots → Edit → audience "Entire Organization" → Save]
> Thanks for being part of the Flock.
Recipient: `
[email protected]`. Sender: `
[email protected]`. Sent: 2026-01-22 14:37:24 -06:00.
## Key takeaways
- **A custom hot list — not a system-level feed like ACIC/NCIC — was shared from a Florida sheriff to an Arkansas municipal PD.** The CPD Policy 800-32 definition of "Hot List" enumerates ACIC, NCIC, OMV, and FBI Kidnapping/Missing Persons databases. A custom hot list authored by a distant SO and pushed into Conway's alert feed is a configuration the policy does not explicitly contemplate. Whether it falls within the policy's "evidence of an offense is indicated" data-sharing standard is an open question.
- **The share is unilateral — Brittany Smith pushed; Conway accepts by enabling audience.** No countersignature, MOU, or even reply email is required. The arrangement operates through the Flock admin interface alone.
- **The technical operation: any Florida-authored plate of interest, once Conway enables "Entire Organization" audience, becomes a real-time alert in Conway** when one of Conway's cameras reads that plate. The opposite direction (Conway plates of interest alerting in Escambia FL) is a separate configuration; the corpus does not show whether Conway reciprocated.
- **The single instance is unlikely to be alone.** This is the only "shared a Hot List" auto-notification in the production, but the [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] lists 1,384 organizations; hot-list sharing among them is presumably common. The single-instance surfacing here suggests either (a) most hot-list shares predate the corpus's email-capture window, or (b) the original FOIA's responsive-set filter excluded older notifications.
## People and orgs mentioned
- **Brittany Smith** — Escambia County FL SO; entity page deferred (single mention, role unspecified).
- [[Lt. Andrew Burningham]] — Conway PD admin recipient.
- [[Escambia County FL Sheriff's Office]] — entity page on next pass.
- [[Flock Safety, Inc.]]
## Concepts invoked
- [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]]
- [[Hot List]]
- [[CPD Policy 800-32 — License Plate Reader Vehicle Operations]]
## Events documented
- [[2026-01 Escambia County FL Hot List Share to Conway PD]] — 2026-01-22.
## Cross-references
- [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] — Escambia County FL SO would appear there; verify on next pass.
- [[Home Depot Camera Sharing Series]] — the corporate-side parallel of cross-entity data sharing.
## Open questions / follow-ups
1. **What does the hot list contain?** The content of the custom hot list is not surfaced; only its existence and Conway's acceptance pathway. The actual plates / criteria are inside the Flock platform.
2. **Did Conway enable the audience?** The notification ends with admin-UI instructions; whether Burningham completed them is not directly recorded. Audit-log analysis might reveal whether Conway alerted on Escambia plates.
3. **Other unsolicited hot-list shares.** Search the production for other "shared a Hot List with you!" notifications and other email patterns that indicate hot-list-share events.