# PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report A two-page statistical report titled "Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR) Six-Month Practice and Usage Data Report," produced by the [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] as the usage-data component of FOIA request `#26-808`. The report states it is "compiled pursuant to Arkansas Code Annotated § 12-12-1805" — the [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] section that requires an ALPR operator to compile practice-and-usage data every six months in a format sufficient for public review. It is the first § 12-12-1805 compilation from a non-Conway jurisdiction in the corpus. ## What's inside The report names the reporting entity as "Pulaski Co Sheriff's Office" and the reporting period as **January 1, 2026 – May 19, 2026**. Its substantive content: - **Summary of ALPR activity** — Total license plates scanned: **1,422,898**. Total confirmed matches (alerts): **2,092**. - **Hotlist / database comparisons** — page 2 carries "Figure 1: Hotlist and Database Comparison Summary," a Flock system-generated chart. The 2,092 alerts break down by source type: | Alert source type | Alerts | |---|---:| | Other Custom Hotlist Alerts on Your Networks (non-owned custom hot lists) | 1,645 | | Official Hotlist Alerts | 302 | | Your Custom Hotlist Alerts (PCSO-owned) | 145 | | **Total** | **2,092** | The chart's "Total Alerts by Topic" table resolves the 302 official-hotlist alerts into: Warrants 130, Sex Offender 106, Protection Order 19, Gang or Suspected Terrorist 16, Violent Person 12, Stolen Vehicle 10, Stolen Plate 9. - **Match outcomes** — Section IV ("Match Outcomes Detail") states, in full: "The Pulaski Co Sheriff's Office does not currently track this data." - **Data preservation** — Section VII states the compiled data "will be preserved for a minimum of eighteen (18) months in compliance with Arkansas law." - The report closes: "This report contains aggregated, system-generated data only and does not include personally identifiable information or individual vehicle data." ## Key takeaways - **Scale: roughly 1.4 million plates scanned in about four and a half months.** 1,422,898 reads over January 1 – May 19, 2026 — an average exceeding 10,000 plate reads per day for the period. - **Most alerts come from other agencies' hot lists.** 1,645 of the 2,092 alerts (79%) are "Other Custom Hotlist Alerts on Your Networks" — alerts triggered by custom hot lists other agencies own and share into PCSO's networks. Only 145 (7%) come from PCSO's own custom hot list, and 302 (14%) from official (OMV/ACIC/NCIC-type) hot lists. The agency's ALPR alerting is predominantly driven by hot lists it does not maintain. See [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] and [[Surveillance Data Sharing — Default-On Posture]]. - **Outcomes are not tracked.** Ark. Code § 12-12-1805 enumerates matches resulting in arrest and prosecution among the practice-and-usage data an ALPR operator must compile ([[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]]). *Observation, distinct from the record:* PCSO's report states it does not track that data — it omits a category the statute it cites enumerates. - **The reporting period ends on the FOIA filing date.** The period closes May 19, 2026 — the day the request was filed — and the companion offense-type file is dated May 21, 2026. *Observation, distinct from the record:* the report appears to have been generated in response to the request; the corpus does not show a standing six-month § 12-12-1805 compilation schedule. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] — the reporting entity. - [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — the ALPR platform vendor; the file is named "PCSO FLOCK …" and the report's chart is a Flock-platform system-generated summary. ## Concepts invoked - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] — § 12-12-1805 (practice-and-usage data) and § 12-12-1808 (such data as a public record). - [[Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)]] - [[Hot List]] · [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] · [[Surveillance Data Sharing — Default-On Posture]] - [[Flock Audit Logs and Retention]] ## Cross-references - [[LPR Report First Half 2025]] and [[LPR Report First Half 2025 (PD-2026-477 Copy)]] — Conway PD's § 12-12-1805 semi-annual reports, the corpus's other instances of this statutory report type. - [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] — "Pulaski County AR SO" is enumerated in Conway PD's sharing topology; the 1,645 non-owned-hot-list alerts here are the activity-side counterpart to that kind of configured relationship. ## Open questions / follow-ups - The report gives a single system-wide figure for plates scanned and alerts; it does not break activity down by camera, by month, or by the specific networks the 1,645 non-owned-hot-list alerts came from. Which agencies' hot lists drive PCSO's alerting is not disclosed. - Section numbering in the produced document runs I–IV then VII; sections V and VI of the template do not appear.