# Arkansas Democrat-Gazette — "Review of Pulaski County Quorum Court vote finds data center moratorium failed" (2026-05-28) Democrat-Gazette report confirming the Pulaski County data-center moratorium **failed** the emergency-ordinance threshold, with the corrected roll call. ## Source metadata - **Publisher:** Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (arkansasonline.com) - **Published:** 2026-05-28 - **Archived:** 2026-06-03, by Invoke-WebRequest (sha256 logged) ## Extract (key passages) - "the final vote was **nine ayes, four nays and two Justices of the Peace voting as present**" — and "Justice Luke McCoy voted 'present,' but was recorded in error as having voted 'AYE.'" - County Judge Barry Hyde "issued an executive order ... [that] instructs the [Planning] department not to accept any applications for 30 days. It excludes applications for mobile home parks, R/V parks and multi-family developments," reciting that "High Intensity Digital Infrastructure are of great concern to the citizens of Pulaski County." - Justice Luke McCoy: "I want to ensure whatever moratorium the quorum court may pass, presumably next month, is well thought out, prevents the county from being sued and is in line with state law." ## Notes - **Tier 3.** This is the Democrat-Gazette account; it reports the corrected tally as **9-4-2**. It **conflicts** with the [Arkansas Advocate](https://arkansasadvocate.com/2026/05/28/data-center-moratorium-in-arkansas-most-populous-county-didnt-pass-review-finds/) on-scene account, which reports **8-6-1** (and that Clerk Hollingsworth "erroneously recorded the vote as 10 in favor, four against and one present"). Both agree the measure fell short of the 10 votes (two-thirds of 15) an emergency ordinance requires. The exact certified tally requires the Tier-2 Quorum Court roll-call sheet (open FOIA to the County Clerk). - The Arkansas Advocate original returned HTTP 403 to the archival fetch on 2026-06-03 (Cloudflare); its 8-6-1 figure is recorded here and on the citing event page from the verified research quote, pending a successful re-archive.