# Pulaski County SO `26-808` — Production Overview The Pulaski County Sheriff's Office's response to Joshua Dunlap's 2026-05-19 Arkansas FOIA request — the standard four-item ALPR template (procurement, internal communications, usage/audit data, asset-forfeiture authorization). The request was filed by email, redirected by the agency to its NextRequest public-records portal, and refiled there as request **`#26-808`**. The 2026-05-22 release produced two PDF documents — both aggregate ALPR usage data answering item 3. After a 2026-05-26 portal status poll, PCSO closed the request on **2026-06-01**: item 1 (vendor / procurement) referred to the **Pulaski County Government** NextRequest portal (`pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com`); item 2 (internal communications) closed as "no records found" following a search by PCSO IT; item 4 (asset-forfeiture authorization) closed as "no records found" following a 2015-present search by PCSO Finance. PCSO's substantive disclosure on the record is item 3 only. This is the investigation's third jurisdiction, after [[Conway Police Department]] (`PD-2026-354`, `PD-2026-477`) and [[Fayetteville Police Department]] (`PD-2026-1484`), and its **first county sheriff's office**. It establishes [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] as an operator of a Flock Safety ALPR system. ## What's inside Two PDF files, ~0.4 MB, released 2026-05-22 via the NextRequest portal. Both carried text layers and extracted cleanly; the page-2 chart in the usage report is a graphical figure read from the raw PDF. | File | Friendly page | Type | Maps to request item | |---|---|---|---| | `PCSO FLOCK Jan 1, 2026 - May 19, 2026.pdf` (2 pp) | [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]] | pdf | item 3 (usage / audit data) | | `Offense-Type-Usage-2026-05-21.pdf` (2 pp) | [[PCSO ALPR Offense-Type Search Usage]] | pdf | item 3 (usage / audit data) | Both files are aggregate, system-generated ALPR exports. Neither names an individual or contains license-plate-level data; the usage report states it "contains aggregated, system-generated data only and does not include personally identifiable information or individual vehicle data." ## FOIA correspondence trace Correspondence is in Gmail and the NextRequest portal, not in `raw/` (per AGENTS.md). Trajectory: | Date / time (UTC) | Event | Channel | |---|---|---| | 2026-05-19 00:33 | Joshua Dunlap files the four-item ALPR FOIA by email to `[email protected]` | Gmail `19e3d8f829ce62e4` | | 2026-05-19 00:49 | PCSO Public Affairs Unit replies — "[a]dditional personal information is needed"; directs the requester to the NextRequest portal | Gmail `19e3d8f829ce62e4` | | 2026-05-19 01:01 | Request refiled on the portal and assigned **`#26-808`** | Gmail `19e3dc0e7062bd88` | | 2026-05-20 19:13 | Portal message: item 1 (vendor information) referred to the Pulaski County Government Purchasing Department; item 2 (IT) and item 3 (CID) require additional time | Gmail `19e46ce4be5a5207` | | 2026-05-22 20:46 | **Two documents released** to the requester — the production ingested here | Gmail `19e5170929098518` | | 2026-05-26 16:32 | Requester portal status poll on items 1, 2, 4 — confirms receipt of the 5/22 release; cites § 25-19-105(c)(4) on the item-1 referral mechanics; requests § 25-19-105(e) date-and-hour certification for item 2; surfaces silence on item 4 | NextRequest portal `#26-808` | | 2026-06-01 21:21 | Knox portal message: item 1 referral upgraded to `pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com`; item 2 (IT) "no records found"; item 4 (Finance, 2015-present search) "no records of the asset-forfeiture-fund records authorizing the PCSO Flock procurement" | NextRequest portal `#26-808` | | 2026-06-01 21:21 | **Request closed** | NextRequest portal `#26-808` | The request is **closed** on the portal as of 2026-06-01 16:21 CDT. Of the four items, only item 3 (usage / audit data) produced records. Items 2 and 4 returned "no records found" certifications from PCSO IT and PCSO Finance respectively; item 1 was procedurally referred to a separate county-government NextRequest tenant. ## Key takeaways - **Pulaski County operates a Flock ALPR system.** Both produced files are Flock-platform exports; the usage report's filename and its system-generated chart identify the platform as Flock. PCSO is the first county sheriff's office documented in the corpus as an ALPR operator. - **1,422,898 license plates scanned in roughly four and a half months.** The [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]] — compiled under Ark. Code § 12-12-1805 — reports 1,422,898 plates scanned and 2,092 confirmed alerts for January 1 – May 19, 2026. - **Most alerts are driven by other agencies' hot lists.** Of the 2,092 alerts, **1,645 (79%)** are classed "Other Custom Hotlist Alerts on Your Networks" — alerts generated by custom hot lists other agencies own and share into PCSO's networks. 302 (14%) are official-hotlist alerts; 145 (7%) are PCSO's own custom hot list. See [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] and [[Surveillance Data Sharing — Default-On Posture]]. - **PCSO does not track ALPR match outcomes.** The report's Section IV ("Match Outcomes Detail") states, in full: "The Pulaski Co Sheriff's Office does not currently track this data." - **Search activity reaches well beyond serious crime.** The [[PCSO ALPR Offense-Type Search Usage]] table breaks 5,680 ALPR searches into 34 offense-type categories; alongside wanted-person, vehicle-theft, drug, and homicide searches, the categories include "Traffic Infraction" (585), "City Planning/Traffic Analysis" (21), "Trespass" (16), and "Curfew/Loitering/Vagrancy Violations" (2). - **The substantive disclosure is item 3 only.** Item 1 (vendor / procurement) was procedurally referred to a separate Pulaski County Government NextRequest portal (`pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com`). Item 2 (internal communications) was closed 2026-06-01 as "no records found" by PCSO IT. Item 4 (asset-forfeiture authorization) was closed the same day as "no records found" by PCSO Finance after a 2015-present search. - **The item-2 "no records" certification is structurally implausible on its face.** PCSO operates a Flock ALPR system that scanned 1.4M plates in 4.5 months and is enrolled in shared-network relationships with other agencies. The corpus-analogue Conway PD production includes 388 internal `.msg` files just over Conway's smaller deployment; a categorical "no records" for the Pulaski-County equivalent is unlikely without a narrow construction of "internal communications." Whether the search included a Flock-administrator inbox (the PCSO equivalent of Conway's Lt. Burningham) is not stated. See follow-ups below. - **The item-4 "no records" finding pushes funding to a different ledger.** PCSO Finance's 2015-present negative means the Flock procurement was not asset-forfeiture-funded at the PCSO level — implying a different funding source (county general appropriation, federal grant, or county-level forfeiture account). The procurement contract referred to Pulaski County Government should expose the funding line. The finding does **not** establish that asset-forfeiture funds were untouched; it establishes that PCSO Finance has no authorizing records for this specific procurement. ## People and orgs mentioned - [[Pulaski County Sheriff's Office]] — the responding agency; ALPR operator. - [[Pulaski County]] — the county government; per the 6/1 portal message, contracts are "handled by the Pulaski County Government" via `pulaskicountygovernment.nextrequest.com`. Referral custodian for item 1. - [[Flock Safety, Inc.]] — the ALPR vendor; the produced reports are Flock-platform exports. - [[Kristin Knox]] — PCSO records / NextRequest staff handler; authored the 5/20, 5/22, and 6/1 portal messages, including the item-2 and item-4 "no records" certifications. - **Tanisha Pattillo** (portal "Point of contact"; no other corpus appearance — page deferred pending further anchoring). - Neither produced document names an individual. The substantive FOIA correspondence runs through the portal under Knox's authorship; Sheriff Higgins's name appears only on the original 2026-05-19 email address line. ## Concepts invoked - [[Automatic License Plate Reader (ALPR)]] - [[Arkansas Automatic License Plate Reader System Act]] — the usage report is compiled under § 12-12-1805. - [[Hot List]] · [[Flock Network Sharing - Hot Lists]] · [[Surveillance Data Sharing — Default-On Posture]] - [[Flock Audit Logs and Retention]] ## Events documented - [[2026-05 Pulaski County SO ALPR FOIA Response]] ## Cross-references - [[SharedNetworks 2025-12-17 Snapshot]] — "Pulaski County AR SO" is one of the 1,384 organizations enumerated in Conway PD's Flock sharing topology as of 2025-12-17 (`SharedNetworks_2025_December_17.csv`, row 279). The two productions independently document the same agency inside the Flock network. - [[Conway Police Department]] (`PD-2026-354`) — the seed jurisdiction; Conway's audit logs and federal-search export are the closest prior-corpus analogues to PCSO's usage data. - [[Fayetteville Police Department]] (`PD-2026-1484`) — Fayetteville trialed Axon ALPR and could not produce its usage data; PCSO produced aggregate usage data but states it does not track outcomes. ## Surveillance-PII handling Both produced files are aggregate, system-generated exports. The usage report states it "does not include personally identifiable information or individual vehicle data." No license-plate numbers, registrant names, residential addresses, or officer personal information appear in either document, and no redactions are marked. ## Open questions / follow-ups 1. **Item 1 — vendor / procurement.** *Answered 2026-06-05 via [[_overview|Pulaski County Government `#26-365`]].* The successor FOIA to the County portal produced the full procurement chain: RFP-23-003 competitive solicitation (April 2023), 4-bidder evaluation by 5 PCSO panelists ([[Earnest Whitten|Whitten]], [[Tony Jordan|Jordan]], [[Chris Holmes|Holmes]], [[Joe Garza|Garza]], [[Greg Evans|Evans]]), [[Pulaski County Flock Safety Term Contract Award (Contract 6764)|August 2023 Award Letter]] signed by Judge [[Barry Hyde]], [[Pulaski County Flock Safety MSA and Order Form (Contract 6764)|October 2023 MSA negotiated]] by Lead Buyer [[Tashika Keown]] and Flock's [[Philip Nanni]], file-stamped 2023-11-28 by [[Terri Hollingsworth]]. 6 Falcon cameras, $36,900 contract total, $18,000/year recurring, $977.63 startup, [[Pulaski County ARDOT Right-of-Way Permit Request for Flock Cameras|6 ARDOT-permitted state-highway locations]]. 2. **Item 2 — "no records" certification, scope ambiguity.** Still open. PCSO IT's categorical "no records" certification is inconsistent with the operational footprint (1.4M plates scanned, multi-party network sharing). The County's `#26-365` production includes embedded PSN-grant administrative correspondence (2020-2021 era) and the Keown↔Nanni Flock contract-negotiation thread (October 2023), but does not include PCSO-side operational correspondence about Flock administration. Whether [[Joe Garza|Garza]]'s inbox (the MSA's § 11.15 designated Notices contact) was searched is not answered by the County production. 3. **Item 4 — funding source.** *Answered 2026-06-05 via `#26-365`.* PCSO Finance's "no records" certification on asset-forfeiture-fund authorization is corroborated by the County's funding line: **`3015-0400-3073` — a general-fund account** (per the [[Pulaski County Flock Safety Term Contract Award (Contract 6764)|Award Letter routing form]] with the Grants Administration signature line empty). The procurement is NOT asset-forfeiture-funded at either PCSO or the County level — it is paid from general-fund appropriation. *Bonus finding:* PCSO's pre-Flock Genetec system (2021-2023) was funded by a federal DOJ PSN18 grant ($75,500) — see [[Pulaski County PSN18 Grant Award (Contract 6228)]]. 4. **Match outcomes.** PCSO states it "does not currently track" ALPR match outcomes; Ark. Code § 12-12-1805 enumerates matches resulting in arrest and prosecution among the practice-and-usage data to be compiled. See [[PCSO ALPR Six-Month Practice and Usage Report]]. 5. **NEW: Quorum Court authorization records.** *Item 2 of the County's `#26-365` request returned nothing because no Quorum Court action exists.* The County's Flock procurement at $36,900 falls below the County's executive-authority procurement threshold; the Judge signed without legislative-body involvement. The threshold itself is not in the corpus — a follow-up FOIA to the County Clerk for the procurement-rules manual would identify it. 6. **NEW: A.C.A. § 27-52-110 application.** *The County's procurement office included [[A.C.A. § 27-52-110 — County Automated Enforcement Device Statute|the 2023-amended Arkansas statute on county automated enforcement devices]] in the Flock contract file.* Whether and how the statute's data-retention rule (subsection (e), no retention absent active investigation) applies to PCSO's 30-day Flock retention is not in the corpus. The threshold question is whether Flock cameras qualify as "automated enforcement devices" under § 27-52-110(a)(1)'s speed-detection requirement.