Title 12 — Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs

The Criminal Justice Institute shall submit to the Joint Budget Committee a yearly report reflecting hiring and participation.

(a) There is established the National Center for Rural Law Enforcement Advisory Board to address policy issues, provide guidance, and further develop national initiatives.(b) The members of the board shall be appointed by the Director of the Criminal Justice Institute and approve…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Commission” means the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training; and(2) “Employing agency” means any state agency or any county, municipality, or other political subdivision of the state, or any agent thereof, which has cons…

(a) (1) An employing agency shall immediately notify the Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, in a manner adopted by the division, of the employment or appointment, or separation from employment or appointment, of any law enforcement officer.(2) Separation from emp…

(1) When an employing agency reports that a law enforcement officer was separated from employment or appointment for one (1) or more of the reasons specified in § 12-9-602(b)(2), the Arkansas Commission on Law Enforcement Standards and Training shall review the certification of t…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Assigned county frequency” means a frequency assigned to a specific county sheriff's office for carrying on day-to-day operations within the county. This frequency is allocated for use by the specific county-based stations and mobile units whic…

(a) It shall be unlawful to transmit over a frequency assigned to a law enforcement agency or department unless it has been approved by the agency or department head or his or her designee. (b) Violation of this or any other portion of this subchapter shall constitute a Class A m…

(a) A seven-member policy committee composed of two (2) representatives each from the Arkansas Sheriffs' Association, the Arkansas Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Arkansas Law Enforcement Officers Association and one (1) representative from the Division of Arkansas State…

(1) The following constitute conditions whereby the emergency frequency can be used if assistance from other counties or the Department of Arkansas State Police is needed:(1) A potential life or death situation such as:(A) A serious traffic accident involving personal injury;(B) …

(a) The assigned county operating frequency will be used for:(1) Base-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile unit transmissions within each county;(2) Base-to-base radio transmissions within those counties which have more than one (1) base station operating on the county frequency;(3) Em…

(1) The following counties shall be assigned the following frequencies:(1) Thirty-seven and four hundredths megahertz (37.04 MHz): Calhoun, Chicot, Clark, Faulkner, Fulton, Little River, Monroe, Newton, Poinsett, and Scott;(2) Thirty-seven and six hundredths megahertz (37.06 MHz)…

(1) In order to interface the separate Department of Arkansas State Police communications system with that of the statewide law enforcement communications system:(1) All municipal and county law enforcement agencies should install receivers on the frequency of the district of the…

(a) All radio transmissions should be used for conducting official law enforcement business only and should be as clear and concise as possible. (b) Standard “ten signals” and the phonetic alphabet are recommended for use by all participating agencies.

This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Arkansas Public Safety Communications and Next Generation 911 Act of 2019”.

(a) It has been determined to be in the public interest to shorten the time and simplify the method required for a citizen to request and receive emergency aid. (b) The provision of a single, primary three-digit emergency number through which fire suppression, rescue, disaster an…

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) “Access line” means a communications line or device that has the capacity to access the public switched network;(2) “Automatic location identification” means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of information de…

(a) (1) The chief executive of a political subdivision may:(A) Designate the public safety answering point of another political subdivision to serve his or her political subdivision as a public safety answering point only; or(B) Retain a dispatch center to serve both public safet…

(a) (1) There is created the Arkansas 911 Board to consist of the following members:(A) The Director of the Division of Emergency Management or his or her designee;(B) The Auditor of State or his or her designee;(C) The State Geographic Information Officer of the Arkansas Geograp…

(1) The staff and supervisors of a public safety answering point or dispatch center shall be:(1) (A) Paid employees, either sworn officers or civilians, of the operating agency designated by the chief executive of the political subdivisions.(B) Personnel other than law enforcemen…

A.C.A. § 12-10-307Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) A public safety answering point shall be capable of transmitting requests for law enforcement, firefighting, disaster, or major emergency response, emergency medical or ambulance services, or other emergency services to a public or private agency where the services are availa…

Each public safety answering point or dispatch center shall be equipped with a system for the processing of requests from the hearing and speech impaired for emergency response.

(a) The public safety answering point shall develop and maintain a system for recording 911 calls received at the public safety answering point. (b) A dispatch center shall develop and maintain a system that has been approved by the Arkansas 911 Board for recording 911 calls tran…

(a) The telephone number 911 is restricted to emergency calls that may result in dispatch of the appropriate response service for fire suppression and rescue, emergency medical services or ambulance, hazardous material incidents, disaster or major emergency occurrences, and law e…

No person shall connect to a service supplier's network any automatic alarm or other automatic alerting devices which cause the number 911 to be automatically dialed and provide a prerecorded message in order to directly access the services which may be obtained through a public …

A.C.A. § 12-10-315Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) A public safety answering point and dispatch center designated by the chief executive of the political subdivision may be considered an element in the communications network connecting state, county, and local authorities to a centralized state depository of information in or…

(a) (1) Each service provider shall forward to any public safety answering point equipped for enhanced 911 service the telephone number and street address of any telephone used to place a 911 call.(2) Subscriber information provided in accordance with this subsection shall be use…

(a) (1) (A) When so authorized by a majority of the persons voting within the political subdivision in accordance with the law, the governing authority of each political subdivision may levy an emergency telephone service charge in the amount assessed by the political subdivision…

(a) The governing authority of the political subdivision shall have power to incur debt and issue bonds with approval from the Arkansas 911 Board for 911 systems and public safety answering point implementation and future major capital items. (b) The bonds shall be negotiable ins…

(a) A covered multiline telephone system shall allow, as a default setting, any station equipped with dialing facilities to directly initiate a 911 call without requiring a user to dial any other digit, code, prefix, suffix, or trunk access code. (b) A business service user that …

(a) (1) Revenue generated under §§ 12-10-318 and 12-10-326 and transferred from the former Arkansas Emergency Telephone Services Board or the Arkansas Public Safety Trust Fund to the Arkansas 911 Board shall be used only for reasonably necessary costs that enhance, operate, and m…

(1) When responding to a 911 emergency call received at a public safety answering point, public safety officers of public safety agencies may use reasonable and necessary means to enter any dwelling, dwelling unit, or other structure without the express permission of the owner wh…

(a) (1) A public safety agency, a public safety answering point, or a dispatch center may provide training opportunities for public safety answering point and dispatch center personnel through the Division of Law Enforcement Standards and Training and the Arkansas Law Enforcement…

(a) As used in this section:(1) “Consumer” means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications service in a retail transaction;(2) “Occurring in this state” means a retail transaction that is:(A) Conducted in person by a consumer at a business location of a seller in…

(1) A new public safety answering point shall not be established unless the new public safety answering point is established as a result of:(1) Consolidation with an existing public safety answering point; or(2) Replacement of an existing public safety answering point. (1) Consol…

(a) A chief executive shall designate a 911 addressing authority that shall create and maintain street centerline and address point data in a geographic information system format. (b) The street centerline and address point data created under subsection (a) of this section shall:…

(a) Each fire protection district shall maintain an accurate fire protection district map that is certified by the:(1) Mayor or other qualified representative of the city or town in which the fire protection district is located; or(2) County judge or county fire coordinator of th…

(a) As used in this section, “telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation” means the delivery of compression or ventilation instructions to callers who are reporting suspected cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. (b) The staff and supervisors of a public safety answering point or…

(1) The commission of public offenses may be prevented by proceedings:(1) For suppressing riots and resistance to lawful authority;(2) For requiring security to keep the peace or for good behavior; and(3) For arresting and confining insane, drunken, and disorderly persons. (1) Fo…

(a) When persons to the number of twenty (20) or more are unlawfully or riotously assembled in a city or town, the county sheriff of the county, his or her deputies, and the other peace officers and magistrates of the city or town, together with the mayor or other chief officer o…

(a) When three (3) or more persons shall be riotously, unlawfully, or tumultuously assembled, it shall be the duty of any judge, justice of the peace, county sheriff, county coroner, or constable who shall have knowledge or be informed thereof to make a proclamation among the per…

(a) When a county sheriff or other public officer authorized to execute process finds or has reason to believe that resistance will be made to the execution of the process, the county sheriff or public officer may command as many inhabitants of his or her county as he or she may …

A.C.A. § 12-11-105Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

A.C.A. § 12-11-110Current through all legislation of the 2025 Regular Session.Arkansas Code of 1987 Annotated Official EditionCopyright © 2026 by the State of Arkansas All rights reserved

(a) As used in this section, “sobering center” means a facility or setting for providing recovery, detoxification, and recuperation from the effects of an intoxicating substance, the focus of which is treating persons who are intoxicated or have substance abuse issues. (b) A law …

(1) As used in this subchapter:(1) (A) “Administration of criminal justice” means performing functions of investigation, apprehension, detention, prosecution, adjudication, correctional supervision, or rehabilitation of accused persons or criminal offenders.(B) “Administration of…

(a) Upon conviction, any criminal justice agency or official subject to fingerprinting or reporting requirements under this subchapter that knowingly fails to comply with the fingerprinting or reporting requirements is guilty of a Class B misdemeanor. (b) A person is guilty of a …

(a) This subchapter governs the:(1) Collection, maintenance, and dissemination of criminal history information on identifiable individuals charged with or pleading guilty or nolo contendere to, or being found guilty of, criminal offenses under the laws of the State of Arkansas; a…

(a) The Arkansas Crime Information Center and the State Crime Laboratory shall implement procedures that will, to the maximum extent feasible, ensure the completeness and accuracy of all criminal history information in this state. (b) All criminal justice agencies and criminal ju…