# Federal Searches CSV *Erratum, 2026-07-30: an earlier version treated every row as proof that a lookup touched Conway data. The CSV records federal-tagged Flock searches and network counts, but no row names Conway, identifies the networks searched, or states that Conway data was returned or viewed.* *Erratum, 2026-08-02: a full-file timestamp parse corrected the represented interval to 2026-03-14 12:45:57 UTC through 2026-04-13 13:58:20 UTC, across 31 calendar dates. The same parse corrected the full-file `Total Networks Searched` range to 586–2,878.* A **5,929-row Flock platform export** produced by Conway PD under the filename `Federal Searches March 2026 to April 2026.csv`. The parsed timestamps run from March 14 through April 13, 2026. Each row records one lookup; the searching officer's name is redacted (`***`), while the **federal organization is named in plain text**. The file establishes federal-tagged search activity associated with the production. Its filename and production context connect it to Conway's response, but its ten columns do not establish the row-level relationship between each search and Conway's records. ## What's inside Schema (10 columns): `ID, Name, Org Name, Total Networks Searched, License Plate, Reason, Case #, Filters, Search Time, Search Type`. - **5,929 search events** from 2026-03-14 12:45:57 UTC through 2026-04-13 13:58:20 UTC, spanning 31 calendar dates. - Searching-officer `Name` is uniformly redacted: `***`. - Searching-plate `License Plate` is uniformly redacted: `***`. - `Org Name`, `Reason`, `Search Time`, and `Search Type` are plain text. - `Case #` and `Filters` fields are mostly empty (occasional `arkansas` filter token visible in adjacent municipal-audit CSVs but rarely populated in this federal file). - All entries have `Search Type` = `lookup`. **Agency distribution (5,929 rows total):** | Agency | Searches | Share | |---|---:|---:| | US Postal Inspection Service | 3,502 | 59.1% | | Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) | 2,385 | 40.2% | | Natchez Trace Parkway MS — National Park Service | 42 | 0.7% | **Sample row** (verbatim, license-plate value `***` per redaction): > `1f4bbf3e-3df8-4c91-8174-397fef099a1c, ***, [Federal] Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 1103, ***, Other - Not Applicable, , , 04/10/2026, 05:01:33 AM UTC, lookup` The `Total Networks Searched` field reports a count for each query. Full-file values run from **586 to 2,878 networks per query**, far larger than Conway's local footprint. The export does not enumerate those networks, state which returned results, or show whether Conway data was viewed. It therefore documents broad search scope without proving that every row touched a Conway record. ## Key takeaways - **Conway PD produced a large federal-search export.** Across 31 calendar dates (2026-03-14 to 2026-04-13), the file records **5,929 federal-tagged lookups**. That is activity evidence. The columns do not prove a Conway match, view, or return for each row. - **US Postal Inspection Service is the largest searching organization in this export.** USPIS accounts for 59% of the rows (3,502), compared with the FBI's 40% (2,385). USPIS rows carry the reason label `"Financial Crime (Embezzlement/Fraud) - Inspections"`. The file does not expose the underlying case facts, interface rules, or networks searched. - **FBI activity at scale.** The 2,385 FBI rows carry `Reason = "Other - Not Applicable"`. The export establishes that label, not whether it was a user default, a system default, or supplemented elsewhere. - **ICE, DHS, CBP, ATF, DEA, USMS do not appear** in this two-month export. Their absence is significant given the original FOIA's specific naming of these agencies. Possible explanations: (a) they didn't search Conway's network during March–April 2026; (b) they search using a non-federally-tagged identity (an officer using a personal/contracted login); (c) the export is filtered to only Flock's `[Federal]` org-prefix and excludes federal officers attached to JTTF or task-force accounts. Each is investigable through further research; the absence cannot be read as proof of non-access. **A question for a supplemental FOIA**: ask for the equivalent export over a wider time window and for any non-`[Federal]`-prefixed federal logins. - **The export spans portions of two calendar months.** The corpus does not include the equivalent export for any other window. Whether Flock generated this file in response to a specific request from Conway PD (e.g., to satisfy the FOIA), or whether it is a standing self-audit tool, is not clear from the email correspondence in the production. A follow-up would locate the email request that generated this export, if any. - **Officer-name redaction is consistent across all rows.** Unlike the monthly audit-log CSVs (where the redactor missed some names — see [[Conway PD Audit Logs Series]]), this file has a uniform redaction policy. Whether the redaction was performed by Flock at export time or by Conway PD's FOIA officer post-export is not clear. ## People and orgs mentioned - **[Federal] US Postal Inspection Service** — agency entity page on next ingest. - **[Federal] Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)** — agency entity page on next ingest. - **[Federal] Natchez Trace Parkway MS — National Park Service** — agency entity page on next ingest. (The Natchez Trace Parkway is a National Park Service unit running ~444 miles from Natchez MS to Nashville TN. NPS LE running plate lookups via Flock is a noteworthy fact in itself.) - [[Conway Police Department]] — the producing agency and the anchor of a separate relationship-topology export. - [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — the platform vendor that enables the search infrastructure and generated this export. ## Concepts invoked - [[Federal LE Data-Sharing Pipeline]] - [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] - [[Flock Audit Logs and Retention]] - [[Surveillance Data Sharing — Default-On Posture]] ## Events documented - *Implicitly: 5,929 federal-tagged search rows from 2026-03-14 through 2026-04-13. They are aggregated here rather than enumerated as individual wiki events.* ## Cross-references - [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] — Conway's 1,384-row relationship inventory. It is topology evidence; this file is federal-tagged search activity whose rows do not name the networks searched. - [[Conway PD Audit Logs Series]] — a separate export of Conway-officer activity. The Federal Searches file records federal-tagged activity but does not identify the networks searched or returned, so the two files are not proved complements at row level. - [[Flock Cameras Apr 2026 City Council QA Thread]] — the April 2026 Council questions about Flock data security; this CSV is the kind of exposure those questions implied. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **Other time windows and row-level network identity.** Two months of data is a slice, and the file does not name the networks searched or returned. A supplemental request could seek the same export for the full deployment plus documentation of the report's filter and row semantics. 2. **Non-federal-prefixed federal officers.** Does a JTTF officer using a `[State] Arkansas State Police` login appear here, or only in the state-police bucket? The federal-prefix scheme may understate federal access. 3. **State-level analog.** Where is the equivalent CSV for Arkansas State Police or out-of-state state agencies? The original FOIA's Item 3 named state agencies (ASP) too; this file does not cover them. 4. **What prompted Flock to generate this export?** Locate the request email in the corpus. 5. **Plate-level forensic.** With the License Plate field redacted, the corpus does not allow plate-level lookups. The unredacted version would be a candidate for a supplemental — though privacy-balanced against the operational concerns of releasing plate-level federal-search records. ## Notes The redaction in this file is by content (`***`), not by filename suffix — the absence of `- Redacted` in the filename is a Conway-PD-side naming choice, not an indicator that PII is included.