# 2026-05 Pulaski County Assessor No-Records Response Across 2026-05-20 to 2026-05-22 the Pulaski County Assessor's Office responded — twice — to the data-center FOIA request for the AVAIO / Project Leo and Little Rock Port Authority sites. It produced no documents, directed the requester to its public data export and mapping site, and left the location-based parcel search and the request's non-valuation items (PILOT, rezoning, correspondence, bond financing) unaddressed. ## Sources This is a FOIA-correspondence event; its record lives in Gmail, not in `raw/`. - FOIA request to the Pulaski County Assessor's Office, 2026-05-19, and the two-part response and follow-up exchange, 2026-05-20 to 2026-05-22 ([thread](https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#all/19e41bda054abe86)). ## What happened - **2026-05-19** — [[Joshua Dunlap]] filed a seven-item Arkansas FOIA request for assessment and related records on the AVAIO / Project Leo site (reported at ~760 acres near Interstate 530 and 145th Street) and the announced Little Rock Port Authority data-center site. Assessor Janet Troutman Ward forwarded it to [[Pete Hornibrook]], Chief Administrator–Real Property. - **2026-05-20** — Hornibrook replied that *"Currently the Pulaski County Assessor's Office has none of the names in which you've given in our database"* and directed the requester to the office's public **Raw Data Export**. - **2026-05-22** — The requester answered that an owner-name search cannot surface land-banked parcels, asked the office to identify the parcels by *location* and to search owner "Little Rock Port Authority," and noted that items 3, 5, 6, and 7 (PILOT/abatement and Quorum Court/County Judge records; rezoning; county–developer correspondence; industrial-development-bond financing) are not in the Raw Data Export. - **2026-05-22** — Hornibrook replied: *"I have furnished you with all the data the Assessor's Office has currently,"* again pointing to the data export and to the county mapping site to *"locate parcels of interest."* He did not perform the location search and did not address items 3, 5, 6, or 7. ## Significance The Assessor's Office disposed of the parcel-valuation items (1–2, 4) by directing the requester to a public dataset — a defensible posture for assessment data, which the office maintains in that export. But it did not (a) identify the Project Leo or Port Authority parcels by location, though that is a routine function of its parcel and GIS system, or (b) give any disposition — production, exemption, or a no-records finding — for items 3, 5, 6, and 7, which are not assessment data and do not appear in the export. The three-working-day period under Ark. Code § 25-19-105(e) ran 2026-05-19 to 2026-05-22. The absence of "AVAIO" and "Project Leo" from the Assessor's owner database is itself a finding: it is consistent with the site being land-banked under an unrelated entity name, or held by the [[Little Rock Port Authority]] — a public-entity ownership structure that would parallel the Project Pyramid site's conveyance to the [[City of West Memphis]]. The investigation's follow-up routes the non-valuation items to Pulaski County government and the Port Authority directly. > [!web-research-unresolved] Identify the owner of record and parcel IDs for the AVAIO / Project Leo site near Interstate 530 and 145th Street, using the Pulaski County Raw Data Export and the arcountydata.com mapping feature. The [[Little Rock Port Authority]] has been ruled out as owner or developer (see [[2026-05 Little Rock Port Authority No-Records Response]]), leaving a land-banking entity or another private holder; the incoming Pulaski County Planning & Development records may identify the parcels.