# Pulaski County ARDOT Right-of-Way Permit Request for Flock Cameras The **January 13, 2025 letter** from Pulaski County Judge [[Barry Hyde]] to the Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) District Permit Officer requesting permission to install **6 Flock Safety LPR cameras** at six specific locations on ARDOT right-of-way within Pulaski County. The single-page letter is the deployment-authorization counterpart to the [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)|MSA]] — i.e., the document that physically authorized Flock to erect the cameras on Arkansas state highway right-of-way. The letter is dated more than **16 months after** the August 7, 2023 Award Letter and **14 months after** the November 28, 2023 MSA file-stamp. The contract specified 180 days from commencement (August 31, 2023) to install — but the actual ARDOT permit request was January 2025, indicating significant deployment delays. *Observation:* the corpus does not document why the deployment took so long. ## What's inside The full letter (verbatim, with light cleanup): > *"PULASKI COUNTY / BARRY HYDE / County Judge / Chief Executive Officer* > > *January 13, 2025* > > *To: ARDOT* > > *Re: Installation of Flock Safety Poles* > > *Dear District Permit Officer,* > > *Pulaski County Requests permission to install on ARDOT Right-of-Way 6 Flock LPR cameras that are purchased by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office to be installed on the following locations within Pulaski County. The locations are as follows:* > > *1. Hwy 161 @ Tahara Industrial DR - North Bound / 5211 Taraha Industrial Dr, North Little Rock, AR 72117, USA* > > *2. Eureka Garden Rd @ Matt Rd - North Bound / 1262 Eureka Garden Rd, North Little Rock, AR 72117, USA* > > *3. Crystal Valley Rd @ Lawson RD - South Bound / 18824 Crystal Valley Rd, Little Rock, AR 72210, USA* > > *4. 145th St - East Bound / 4825 145th St, Little Rock, AR 72206, USA* > > *5. AR 107 @ Kuykendall - North Bound / 22500 AR-107, Jacksonville, AR 72076, USA* > > *6. West Dixon Road - West Bound / 925 Oak Cir, Little Rock, AR 72206, USA* > > *If permitted, Flock Inc. will be conducting the installation in these locations and all cameras will be monitored by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office.* > > *Sincerely yours,* > > *[signature]* > > *Pulaski County Judge/CEO"* Address footer: **201 South Broadway, Suite 400, Little Rock, AR 72201 | Phone 501.340.8305 | Cell 501.351.6616 | Fax 501.340.8282 | pulaskicounty.net**. ## The 6 deployment locations | # | Direction | Approximate cross-streets | Address | Jurisdiction context | |---|---|---|---|---| | 1 | North Bound | Hwy 161 @ Tahara Industrial Dr | 5211 Taraha Industrial Dr, North Little Rock 72117 | NLR industrial area on Hwy 161 | | 2 | North Bound | Eureka Garden Rd @ Matt Rd | 1262 Eureka Garden Rd, North Little Rock 72117 | Same general NLR corridor | | 3 | South Bound | Crystal Valley Rd @ Lawson Rd | 18824 Crystal Valley Rd, Little Rock 72210 | West Little Rock / Crystal Hill area | | 4 | East Bound | 145th St | 4825 145th St, Little Rock 72206 | South Little Rock | | 5 | North Bound | AR 107 @ Kuykendall | 22500 AR-107, Jacksonville 72076 | Jacksonville, on state highway 107 | | 6 | West Bound | West Dixon Rd | 925 Oak Cir, Little Rock 72206 | South Little Rock | The 6-location count matches the [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)|MSA]]'s 6-camera quantity and the recurring fee structure ($3,000/camera/year × 6 = $18,000/year). *Observation:* the six selected sites span three different cities within Pulaski County (Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville) and one unincorporated area (Crystal Hill / Crystal Valley Rd) — but importantly **all six are on Arkansas-state-highway right-of-way** (Hwy 161, Hwy 107, plus the various state-numbered county routes). The deployment is structurally a state-highway corridor surveillance network, not a county-roads or in-municipality surveillance network. ## Key takeaways - **Six cameras, on state-highway right-of-way, monitored by PCSO.** The letter directly answers a question the [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]] did not: where PCSO's Flock cameras physically are. The 6 sites are arterial state-highway-right-of-way locations, predominantly North-South-bound, picking up commuter and through-traffic flows. - **Pulaski County applied for the ARDOT permit, but Flock will perform the installation.** Despite the [[Pulaski County RFP-23-003 Solicitation and Flock Safety Bid|RFP scope]]'s requirement (#11) that *"Vendor will take care of any agreements with Arkansas Department of Transportation as needed,"* the actual permit applicant on this letter is the County (Judge Hyde), not Flock. Flock is named as the installer ("Flock Inc. will be conducting the installation in these locations"). *Observation:* the ARDOT-permitting requirement that the County offloaded to Flock by contract was, in operational practice, partly handled by the County itself — Judge Hyde signed the permit letter on County letterhead. - **The 16-month gap between contract execution (Nov 2023) and ARDOT permit request (Jan 2025) is unexplained in the corpus.** The contract obligated installation within 180 days of commencement (August 31, 2023 → February 27, 2024). The ARDOT permit request was filed January 13, 2025 — nearly a year past the contracted installation deadline. Whether the County requested extensions, whether the permit application was preceded by an earlier informal coordination with ARDOT, or whether the cameras were installed off-right-of-way during the interim, is not documented in the production. - **The "monitored by the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office" framing is the corpus's clearest documentary statement of operational responsibility.** PCSO is the operator; the County is the legal owner of the contract. The framing also implicitly addresses ARDOT's likely permit-criteria concern about ongoing camera monitoring and maintenance accountability. - **Cross-jurisdictional camera placement under a single-jurisdiction permit.** The 6 cameras are in 3 different cities (Little Rock, North Little Rock, Jacksonville) and 1 unincorporated area, but only PCSO is named as the monitoring agency. *Observation, distinct from the record:* this implicitly extends PCSO's surveillance footprint into the operational areas of the [[Little Rock Police Department]], the North Little Rock Police Department, and the Jacksonville Police Department — none of whom appear on the permit letter. Whether the County coordinated with the municipal PDs is not in the corpus. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Barry Hyde]] — County Judge; signing authority. - [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — named as the installer. - [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] — named as the monitoring agency. - [[Pulaski County]] — the permit applicant. - **ARDOT (Arkansas Department of Transportation)** — the permit-issuing agency. Not given a separate page; ARDOT appears across multiple jurisdictions in the corpus (see also [[Mayor's Office (Conway)]] for Conway's permit chain). ## Concepts invoked - [[Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)]] - [[Flock Camera-as-a-Service Procurement Model]] — Flock retains hardware ownership; installs/removes per contract. ## Events documented - [[2025-01 Pulaski County Requests ARDOT Permit for 6 Flock Cameras]] — the permit letter itself. ## Cross-references - [[_overview]] — production overview. - [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)]] — the operative contract authorizing the installation. - [[Pulaski County Flock Safety Term Contract Award (Contract 6764)]] — the upstream Award Letter; the 180-day installation timeline. - [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]] — the operational data from the deployment (1,422,898 plates scanned Jan-May 2026). - [[2023 Pre-Flock LPR Support Letter to ARDOT]] — the Conway analog: a similar ARDOT-permit-request letter, signed by Mayor Castleberry, for the Conway PD pre-Flock deployment. (Cross-corpus parallel.) ## Open questions / follow-ups - **The 16-month deployment gap.** Why did installation not happen within the contracted 180 days? An internal PCSO or County operational record would clarify. - **The ARDOT permit's issuance status.** Whether the permit was granted, when, and under what conditions, is not in this production. A follow-up to ARDOT for the responsive permit document would close the loop. - **Whether the 6 cameras in this letter are the entirety of PCSO's Flock deployment** or whether additional cameras exist on non-state-highway right-of-way (county roads, intersections, private property) is unclear. The recurring fee structure suggests 6 is the total camera count, but operational deployments sometimes add cameras outside the original permitted set. - **Coordination with municipal PDs.** Whether [[Little Rock Police Department]] and the North Little Rock / Jacksonville PDs were notified of PCSO's intent to operate Flock cameras within their jurisdictions is not documented here.