# Scott Hardin Scott Hardin is a Department of Finance and Administration staffer whose email account receives forwarded mail from the `[email protected]` shared mailbox. His out-of-office automatic reply, generated 2026-05-28 14:39:53 UTC in response to [[Joshua Dunlap]]'s second-escalation email to that shared mailbox, identifies him as out of the office until Monday, 2026-06-01, and provides a cell number for deadline-pressing matters: *"If you are on deadline, please text me at 501-352-9351 and I will coordinate a response."* The auto-reply is signed *"Scott Hardin / DFA."* ## Role and affiliations Identified DFA staffer on the FOIA shared-mailbox forwarding chain. Substantive role within the Department is not established by any Tier-1 corpus document and is not asserted here. ## Appearances in the corpus - [[2026-05 DFA FOIA Routing Auto-Replies]] — 2026-05-28 out-of-office auto-reply on the DFA FOIA shared mailbox; offers a cell number for deadline-sensitive contact. ## Notes Hardin's auto-reply firing within nineteen seconds of [[Joshua Dunlap]]'s 2026-05-28 second escalation to `[email protected]` confirms that the Department's FOIA shared mailbox forwards to multiple personnel (at minimum Janis Bartlett's retired account and Hardin's active account). His OOO window — out until 2026-06-01, with the wiki's standing administrative deadline at EOB 2026-06-03 — means he returns with two working days to coordinate any substantive response before the § 25-19-107 enforcement window opens. The cell-number invitation in the auto-reply is on the public record but the wiki does not act on out-of-band communications channels; any deadline-sensitive contact via cell is a [[Joshua Dunlap|Joshua]]-decision recorded outside the wiki.