Employment Action · 2025-08-15
Epperly termination reported; underlying allegations unresolved
The Kansas City Star reported on August 28 that Chief Ray Shastid confirmed Dustin Epperly’s August 15 firing following an alleged July 10 geese shooting in Rogers. Municipal citations were reported. The final reasoned discipline record, appeal, final criminal disposition and final CLEST order were not obtained. Scope: Reported employment action only; citation is not conviction and the allegations are not treated as sustained findings.
Saved research · page 12Court Decision · 2026-06-18
Crum v. Reinhardt qualified-immunity dismissal
The federal court granted Officer Quinton Reinhardt summary judgment on qualified immunity and dismissed with prejudice. The plaintiff challenged a urine sample during a DWI investigation. The court held the asserted right was not clearly established, assuming the underlying constitutional question for its analysis. Later appellate activity was not verified. Scope: One officer, one disputed search and this district-court order; neither misconduct nor broad constitutional compliance established.
Saved research · page 12Sustained Administrative Finding · 2025 reporting year
Seven 2025 sustained entries — BECC only
The 2025 city-posted BECC summary lists seven internal complaints and zero citizen complaints, with all seven marked sustained. It does not state conduct narratives, sanctions, appeals or unique employee counts. The same one-page reporting content was rechecked October 13, 2026. Scope: Bentonville Emergency Communications Center members only; not sworn-patrol or department-wide complaint totals.
Saved research · page 12Accreditation · 2026-03-14
Law-enforcement and communications accreditation confirmed
CALEA’s March 17, 2026 awards announcement lists Bentonville in both law-enforcement and communications accreditation for the March 14 awards. This verifies accreditation, without establishing individual-incident findings or the absence of misconduct. Scope: Independent accreditation context; no automatic operational credit.
Saved research · page 12Agency Statement · Undated; retained rechecks 2026-10-05
Published safeguards and agency-reported training audit
The city publishes anonymous complaint procedures and disposition definitions and reports a successful CLEST personnel/training-records audit. APCO lists the communications training program. The audit, staff denominator and roster-linked completions were not obtained; written requirements and course hosting are not completions. Scope: Published process, city-reported audit and communications accreditation distinguished.
Saved research · page 12Court Decision · 2025-12-18
Haro v. Shastid — order concerned crime-lab director Brown
The order granted qualified immunity to crime-lab director Theodore Brown and its operative conclusion dismissed Brown claims with prejudice. Claims against Shastid and Esterline remained live at that order. The introductory paragraph says without prejudice; the saved report follows the operative conclusion. Later disposition was not verified. Scope: Brown’s actions are not attributed as a final merits finding against Bentonville officers.
Saved research · page 12Other Verified Context · 2026-03-12
Rubio v. Davis — procedural docket only
The public docket mirror records a civil-rights filing on March 12, an April 27 answer and scheduling through its August 24, 2026 snapshot. The complaint, evidentiary record and later activity were not obtained; no allegations are restated or scored. Scope: Litigation existence only; no merits finding.
Saved research · page 13Allegation · 2026-05-11
Patrol-vehicle collision investigation unresolved
May 12 KNWA/KFTA reporting reproduced by AOL, attributed to a police release, said a patrol vehicle struck a cyclist in a crosswalk and Arkansas State Police was investigating. The article reported a pedestrian crossing signal. Final crash findings, citation decision and discipline were not obtained. Scope: Reported incident and investigation, not a final fault or misconduct determination.
Saved research · page 13Sustained Administrative Finding · 2024 reporting year
2024 BECC summary — outside the conduct window
The visually checked 2024 BECC summary has three internal complaints and one citizen complaint, all four sustained. The historical case identifiers/dates are IC2024-00007 (December 4), CC2024-00006 (June 10), SC2024-00006 (February 21), IC2024-00005 (December 29). SC is retained as printed. Severity, unique personnel, sanctions and follow-through were not supplied. Scope: Historical communications-center context only; not scored as 2025-2026 conduct.
Saved research · page 13Other Verified Context · 2025 reporting year
2025 BECC listed case occurrences
The seven listed internal/sustained entries are IC2025-00005 (April 21), IC2025-00007 (June 29), IC2025-00008 (September 26), IC2025-00009 (September 29), IC2025-00012 (September 30), IC2025-00011 (November 27), and IC2025-00015 (December 16). These are occurrence dates, not complaint-receipt or closure dates. Scope: Communications-center summary table; no inference of unique employees or investigation timeliness.
Saved research · page 13Other Verified Context · 2026-08-14 / 2026-08-17
ALPR archive records require authentication and version resolution
The citizen archive identifies an August 14 directive as signed and an August 25 email forwarding an August 17 draft. Retained August 14 text describes interim ALPR procedures. The draft includes a 150-day retention ceiling with investigation exception, six-month public statistics and 18-month preservation of those statistics. Complete signed images/signature and current city production were not independently verified. Archive analysis of searches and permissions was not recomputed. Scope: Version-limited leads, not verified current operational policy, configuration, unlawful-search finding or IA adjudication.
Saved research · page 13Other Verified Context · 2026-04-08 event; publication dates unresolved
Ride-along appreciation and foster-care awareness escort
A LinkedIn post praises a Bentonville ride-along but retained only relative age. The Long Road Home Project describes and praises a police escort for its April 8 foster-care awareness ride. Exact publication timing and a complete service-duty/follow-through record were not established. Scope: Favorable evaluations and organizer account; not a representative survey or scored service outcome.
Saved research · page 13Scope and evidence gaps
Archive migration, not a refreshed investigation. Conduct and sentiment cutoff remains October 4, 2026; original source rechecks on October 5 remain dated as such. Only named publication sets were reread October 13. Four assessable checks concern published intake, a limited BECC outcome report, budget/staffing disclosure and service access. No Bentonville conduct, training-completion or corrective-action outcome check is supported. The 2025 BECC report applies to communications-center members only. Seven sustained entries do not identify seven employees or sworn officers, severity, sanctions, or a department-wide misconduct rate. Qualified immunity in Crum did not resolve the underlying constitutional question; Haro police claims and Rubio litigation, Epperly final discipline/criminal/licensing outcomes, and cyclist crash outcome remain unverified at the retained cutoff. Published safeguards, accreditation, awards, host-course listings and an agency-reported training audit do not establish implementation or roster-linked completion. 2026 budget positions and reserve chart are plans; current filled-versus-authorized reconciliation is absent from the bounded police chapter. Source annual staffing and crime snapshots retain original dates and scope. Raw Bentonville sentiment records were unavailable. The historical 104-reviewed/4-eligible NR sample is preserved as an archived aggregate; an empty new comment array is not a fresh zero-comment claim. No agency request, response invitation, form submission or broad new social/case search occurred during migration. The original public-source selection is a convenience record; no complete operational population, random sample or predeclared conduct sampling frame was retained. New publication snapshots do not extend the historical conduct/incident cutoff. Narrow BECC reporting must not be attributed to sworn patrol.
Selected source links
Links reproduced from the saved research. Findings retain the report’s original review date.
The full source register is in the research PDF.
Agency response
Not requested or received for the saved draft. No new agency contact was made during migration; public statements remain separately attributed.
