# Rogers RTIC, AI, and Camera Policies Seven governance documents, the most complete policy set any Arkansas agency has produced to this investigation. | Document | Number | Effective | Approval | |---|---|---|---| | Public Safety Camera Network System | 406.4 | 2026-04-14 | 2026-04-14 | | Automatic License Plate Readers | 406.5 | 2025-04-09 | 2026-04-14 | | **Artificial Intelligence** | 406.6 | 2025-11-06 | revised 2026-04-14 | | **Real Time Information Center** | 406.7 | 2026-04-14 | 2026-04-14 | | Audio Video Recorded Evidence | 413.2 | 2009-07-01 | | | Mobile Video Recorder | 413.4 | 2009-05-01 | | | Special Order, Automatic License Plate Readers | SO 2025-1 | 2025-04-09 | Chief Jonathan Best | ## 406.6: the corpus's first AI policy Policy 406.6 governs "the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)" and is the first such policy in the corpus. It defines AI, generative AI, "human-in-the-loop," and "Automated Decision Tool," and it names a specific product: > "Draft One- Narrative generation tool powered by camera and audio, developed by Axon. Draft One transcribes audio from body worn cameras and uses AI to produce police report narratives." An Arkansas police department is therefore documented as governing machine generation of police report narratives from body-camera audio. The policy states an intent to "ensure the ethical use of AI through transparency, fairness, accountability, security of sensitive information, and the protection of individual rights." The production does not include any record of Draft One procurement, deployment, volume of reports generated, or review outcomes. Whether the tool is in operational use at Rogers is not established by the policy alone. ## 406.7: the RTIC and a Drone First Responder program Policy 406.7 establishes the Real Time Information Center, whose purpose is "to provide timely and relevant information to support patrol and investigative units." It authorises the RTIC to "access, view, and store video evidence from public facing cameras owned, operate[d]" by the City, and directs RTIC personnel to "Access available PSCN Cameras, DFR Systems," and ALPR. It also establishes a **Drone First Responder program**: - A "**DFR Chief Pilot** is a sworn (or civilian) RTIC Member," responsible for "Overall upkeep of the DFR program and equipment," training of "RTIC/DFR personnel," ensuring "DFR operations comply with federal and state" requirements, and "effective and efficient day to day DFR operations." - Detection sources are described together: information "initially detected through RTIC unique sources (PSCN/ DFR/ALPR)." - The policy repeatedly defers to "**SOG 417.2 Drone First Responder Program**" for operational guidelines. **SOG 417.2 was not produced.** This is the corpus's first documented DFR program. Benton County SO expressly stated its drones are *not* part of a DFR auto-launch system, and the vendor DFR marketing reaching LRPD had no Arkansas deployment behind it. Rogers supplies the first. See [[Law-Enforcement Drone and UAS Programs]]. ## 406.4: private donor cameras and a records-avoidance clause Policy 406.4 defines the Public Safety Camera Network as "any camera providing access to either live or recorded" video, and establishes two private-camera pathways: - **Private Donor Cameras** — "Any camera feed owned and maintained by a private entity and the private entity voluntarily elects to participate in the Public Safety Camera System by providing access to the public area facing camera feeds." - **Volunteer Registry** — "Instead of providing access, private citizens and business owners with" cameras supply registry information so the Department knows where private surveillance exists. The private-donor conditions include a clause with direct public-records consequences: > "The private donor is responsible to respond to any request from the media or public regarding their cameras. **All private donor video is owned by the private donor and is not subject to public records requests.**" (406.4 § 4.4.4) This is the [[T022 - Bentonville Click-to-Allow Sharing Statement vs Produced Sharing Records]] theory in adopted written policy: a structure under which video a police real-time centre can view is declared outside the reach of the Arkansas FOIA because a private party holds title. Bentonville's version was internal reasoning about a third party's request; Rogers's is a signed departmental policy. See [[T028 - Rogers Private Donor Camera Records Exclusion]]. The policy does provide countervailing limits: private donor feeds "will not be recorded by the RPD," and RTIC access requires that the agency "only have access to areas where the public has no reasonable expectation of privacy." Traffic cameras are handled separately, with settings "assigned by the Rogers Street Department," another instance of camera control sitting outside the police department ([[Non-Police Municipal Custody of Surveillance Cameras]]). ## 406.5 and SO 2025-1: ALPR Both carry the same policy language; SO 2025-1 (approved by **Chief Jonathan Best**, 2025-04-09) appears to be the special order that 406.5 later formalised. The hot-list definition reaches beyond NCIC to "data held by the Office of Motor Vehicles, the Arkansas Crime Information Center including without limitation the Arkansas Crime Information Center's Missing Persons database, the National Crime Information Center, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation Kidnapping and Missing Persons database." LPR Data is defined to include "information regarding the location of the police vehicle in which the LPR is installed," which contemplates mobile as well as fixed readers. Neither document addresses **network sharing**, which is the notable gap given that [[Rogers SharedNetworks 2026-07-10 Export]] documents 2,408 organizations. ## 413.2 and 413.4: the legacy layer The two 2009 policies govern audio/video recorded evidence and mobile video recorders. They predate the Department's ALPR, RTIC, AI, and camera-network policies by fifteen to seventeen years and were produced alongside them without a statement of whether they remain in force. ## Cross-references - [[rogers-pd/2026-07-24-first-production/_overview|Rogers First Production Overview]] - [[Rogers Meraki Camera Inventory]] — the 263 cameras the PSCN reaches. - [[Rogers SharedNetworks 2026-07-10 Export]] — the sharing topology no policy governs. - [[Law-Enforcement AI-Assisted Analytics]]; [[Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC)]]; [[Private-Business Camera Sharing into LE Networks]]; [[Law-Enforcement Drone and UAS Programs]] - [[Axon Enterprise, Inc.]]; [[Jonathan Best]] ## Open questions / follow-ups - **SOG 417.2 Drone First Responder Program**, referenced repeatedly and not produced. - Whether Axon Draft One is in operational use, its procurement, and any record of reports generated or reviewed. - The private donor camera roster and the Volunteer Registry contents. - Any policy governing Flock network sharing approval, which none of the seven documents addresses. - Whether the 2009 video policies remain in force.