# Federal Searches CSV A **5,929-row Flock platform export** of every federal-agency Flock lookup performed against Conway PD's dataset over a two-month window (March 1, 2026 – April 30, 2026). Each row represents one search; the searching officer's name is redacted (`***`), but the **federal agency is named in plain text**. This file directly resolves **Open Follow-up #3 of the investigation** (Item 3 of the original FOIA) with documentary evidence of active federal-LE access. It is one of the strongest single artifacts in the production. ## 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** between 2026-03-01 and 2026-04-21 (per filename window) / through 2026-04 (per Search Time values inspected). - 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 how many distinct Flock networks the agency's query swept. Observed values in the visible rows: **1,076 – 2,690 networks per query.** That figure is the size of the Flock dataset the federal officer ran *each* lookup against — far larger than Conway's local 26-camera footprint. Conway PD's data appears in those queries because Conway is **one of the 1,000+ networks the federal agency has access to**, not because Conway is the search target. ## Key takeaways - **Federal LE actively queries Conway PD's data.** During a 51-day window (2026-03-01 to 2026-04-21), federal-agency users ran **5,929 lookups** that touched Conway PD's dataset. That averages ~116 federal lookups per day involving Conway-network data. The "Item 3" question of the original FOIA — whether federal agencies receive data — is answered: **yes, at scale, on a routine basis**. - **US Postal Inspection Service is the dominant federal counterparty.** USPIS accounts for 59% of all federal queries (3,502 lookups), more than FBI's 40% (2,385 lookups). USPIS's `Reason` codes include "Financial Crime (Embezzlement/Fraud) - Inspections" — a category that does not on its face require nationwide camera-network access. The volume + the reason code together raise the question of whether USPIS is using Flock's network for routine criminal investigations beyond mail-specific predicates. - **FBI activity at scale.** 2,385 FBI lookups in two months, exclusively `Reason = "Other - Not Applicable"`. The FBI has effectively made the "Other - Not Applicable" reason its default — no specific case-type predicate is offered. - **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 is two months wide.** 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 data-providing agency. - [[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 individual federal-LE search events between 2026-03-01 and 2026-04-21. The events are aggregated, not enumerated as individual wiki entries.* ## Cross-references - [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] — the broader sharing relationship Conway has with 1,384 organizations (this Federal Searches file is the activity record; SharedNetworks is the relationship inventory). - [[Conway PD Audit Logs Series]] — Conway-officer-internal searches; this Federal Searches file is the complement (non-Conway federal officers searching Conway's data). - [[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.** Two months of data is a slice. Did federal access scale up or down outside the window? Supplemental FOIA: request the same `Federal Searches` export for the full life of the deployment. 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 > [!important] PII / surveillance handling > Per AGENTS.md surveillance-investigation handling rules: no license plate values, no officer names from this file are reproduced in any wiki page even though the file is labeled "Federal Searches" (without `- Redacted` suffix). 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.