# 2026-05 Chamber of Commerce FOIA Filed On 2026-05-26, [[Joshua Dunlap]] filed an Arkansas Freedom of Information Act request with the [[Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce]] (`[email protected]`) seeking records on the two hyperscale data-center projects the Chamber is now anchored to in the corpus: the [[AVAIO Digital Partners|AVAIO Digital / "Project Leo"]] project in Pulaski County and the [[Willowbend Capital, LLC|Willowbend Capital / "Project Boar"]] project at the Port of Little Rock. A copy of the requester's Arkansas driver's license was attached. ## Sources This is a FOIA-correspondence event; its record lives in Gmail. - The sent request, with attachment, 2026-05-26 ([thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e64929d1f3dcbf)). ## What happened The Chamber FOIA followed two prior productions that placed the Chamber inside both projects' transaction records: - [[Bryan Day]], Executive Director of the [[Little Rock Port Authority]], stated in his 2026-05-22 no-records response that the AVAIO / Project Leo project "was worked by the LR Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission" — see [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response]]. - The Port Authority's 2026-05-26 Project Boar production included Day's admission that "I did not sign an NDA for this particular project; the chamber did on our behalf" — see [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority Produces Project Boar Records]]. Board Resolution 0429221 (2025-04-29) further recites that "the Little Rock Port Authority staff, in conjunction with [the] Little Rock Regional Chamber of Commerce has reviewed the Purchase Agreement" with Willowbend Capital — placing the Chamber inside the public-authority transaction's review process. The 2026-05-26 request anticipates a private-entity objection and grounds the Arkansas FOIA's § 25-19-103 reach in the Chamber's economic-development recruitment work as publicly-funded activity. Five record categories were requested for the period 2023-01-01 through receipt: 1. Correspondence between the Chamber and the developer of either project — including AVAIO Digital Partners, AVAIO Capital, ADP Little Rock Data Hub, LLC, [[Willowbend Capital, LLC]], the developer organizer [[Michael Montfort]], and any parent / affiliate / Fortune-100 entity (including any [[Google LLC|Google]] entity) named. 2. Non-disclosure agreements (and side letters, amendments, term sheets) the Chamber signed in connection with either project — explicitly including the NDA the Chamber signed on the Port's behalf for the Willowbend / Project Boar project. 3. Correspondence between the Chamber and the [[City of Little Rock]], the [[Little Rock Port Authority]], Pulaski County, the [[Arkansas Economic Development Commission]], the [[Office of the Governor of Arkansas]], [[Entergy Arkansas]], Central Arkansas Water, the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority, and any consultant or site-selection representative referencing either project. 4. Records of public funds the Chamber has received or expended in connection with either project's recruitment — sufficient to establish the § 25-19-103 reach analysis. 5. Internal Chamber records discussing either project (meeting minutes, board materials, staff memos, briefing packets, project-tracking documents). A fee waiver under § 25-19-105(d)(3)(A)(ii) was requested as a public-interest, non-commercial use; native electronic format was preferred; and a withholding log under § 25-19-105(f)(3) was requested for any redactions, with explicit notice that a private NDA is not itself an Arkansas FOIA exemption. ## Significance The Chamber is the corpus's single highest-value uncovered Tier-1 custodian — anchored to both Pulaski County hyperscale projects, holding the Willowbend / Project Boar NDA on the Port's behalf, and inside the Purchase Agreement review process per the 2025-04-29 Port resolution. Per Ark. Code § 25-19-105(e), the three-business-day response window runs to 2026-05-29 (Friday); any longer time-estimate response must be in writing under that subsection.