Arkansas will utilize grant funds for a procurement contract to support a comprehensive maintenance plan of the recently integrated arkansas SEX offender registry (asor) platform

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART Office) under the Support for Adam Walsh Act Implementation Grant Program (CFDA 16.750), will fund a $250,000 procurement contract for the Arkansas Crime Information Center (ACIC) to support a comprehensive maintenance plan for the recently integrated Arkansas Sex Offender Registry (ASOR) platform. The funding will enhance ASOR's functionality and ensure optimal data integrity across various state and national databases, addressing development issues and implementing essential maintenance to optimize the platform's reliability and performance over a 3-year period from October 2024 to September 2027.

The maintenance will enhance asor functionality and ensure optimal data integrity across various state and national databases. By addressing development issues and implementing essential maintenance of the new platform, this will result in optimizing the platforms reliability and performance.