(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 order to serve the public safety and criminal justice community.
(b) A public safety answering point and dispatch center is restricted in that it may access files in the centralized state depository of information only for the purpose of providing information to:
(1) An end user as authorized by state law; and
(2) An authorized recipient of the contents of those files, in the absence of serving as an information service agency.
(c) The designation of the public safety answering point as an information provider to an authorized recipient and an agency of a political subdivision shall be made by the chief executive of each political subdivision.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 12 - Law Enforcement, Emergency Management, and Military Affairs
Subtitle 2 - Law Enforcement Agencies and Programs
Chapter 10 - Communications Systems
Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Public Safety Communications and Next Generation 911 Act of 2019
§ 12-10-302. Legislative findings, policy, and purpose
§ 12-10-304. Public safety answering points
§ 12-10-305. Arkansas 911 Board
§ 12-10-306. Communications personnel
§ 12-10-308. Response to requests for emergency response inside and outside jurisdiction
§ 12-10-309. Requests from the hearing and speech impaired
§ 12-10-313. Restrictions and nonemergency telephone number
§ 12-10-314. Connection of network to automatic alarms, etc., prohibited
§ 12-10-316. Public safety answering points — Access to information
§ 12-10-318. Emergency telephone service charges — Imposition — Liability — Public safety charge
§ 12-10-321. Public safety answering points — Bonds
§ 12-10-322. Direct access to 911 services required for multiline telephone systems
§ 12-10-323. Authorized expenditures of revenues
§ 12-10-324. Response to call — Entrance procedures
§ 12-10-325. Training standards
§ 12-10-326. Prepaid wireless public safety charge — Definitions
§ 12-10-327. Restriction on creation of public safety answering point