# Hamilton Kemp Joseph Hamilton Kemp is the **Pulaski County Attorney** — the county government's chief legal officer and its Arkansas FOIA records custodian. He appears in this corpus first as the custodian who gave the county's consolidated FOIA response on the AVAIO Project Leo records (2026-05-22), and again as the author of the **2026-05-27 memorandum to file refusing to sign the data-center moratorium ordinance**. ## Role and affiliations - **Pulaski County Attorney**, County Attorney's Office, 201 S. Broadway, Suite 400, Little Rock, AR 72201 (501-340-8285). FOIA records custodian for [[Pulaski County Government]]. - His paralegal, Cedric Simpson, transmitted the Project Leo planning file. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[County Attorney Memo and AG Opinion 2023-060 on the Moratorium]] — Kemp's 2026-05-27 "Memorandum to File" on Item 26-I-37A. He states the Quorum Court *"adopted"* the moratorium ordinance (the day before the Clerk corrected that count), that it *"impermissibly suspends authority granted by Arkansas law to permit construction of data centers,"* citing the **Arkansas Data Centers Act of 2023 (Ark. Code § 14-1-601 et seq.)** and amendments (**§ 23-119-101 et seq.**) and **AG Opinion No. 2023-060**, and that consequently the ordinance *"does not bear my signature."* - [[2026-05 Pulaski County Government FOIA Response]] — Kemp's office gave the county's "Planning records only" response to the 2026-05-22 AVAIO Project Leo FOIA. - [[AVAIO Project Leo Site Plan and County Review|AVAIO Project Leo planning file]] — produced under Kemp's custodianship. ## Notes - His memo's factual assertion that the ordinance was "adopted" is superseded by Clerk [[Terri Hollingsworth]]'s 2026-05-28 correction (the vote was miscounted; the ordinance did not pass) — the contradiction tracked at [[T004 - Did the Pulaski County Data-Center Moratorium Pass]]. His **substantive legal objection** (ban-vs-regulate under the Arkansas Data Centers Act) does not depend on the vote count and remains a live constraint on any re-vote. - The 2025 organizational ordinance [[Quorum Court Organizational Ordinance 25-I-01|25-I-01]] names **Adam Fogleman** as County Attorney as of January 2025; Kemp held the office by May 2026.