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AI Laws in Little Rock, Arkansas
As of 2026-08-12, AI Laws USA tracks 19 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Little Rock, Arkansas: 10+ federal protections, 8 Arkansas state-level rules, and 1 local Little Rock ordinance. Coverage is strongest on consumer protection, government use of AI, automated decision-making, and deepfakes. 9 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Little Rock local AI rules
1 local AI rule specific to Little Rock, Arkansas.
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In effect Limited protection
Industrial Zoning Ordinance Regulating Data Centers
Little Rock, AR · Effective 2026-06-03 · Industrial Zoning Ordinance Regulating Data Centers
Little Rock's Board of Directors unanimously amended industrial zoning ordinances to regulate data centers, requiring water-use reports and setting noise limits, after declining to enact a moratorium.
Arkansas-level AI rules
8 Arkansas state rules apply to residents and businesses in Little Rock. Sorted strongest first.
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In effect Limited protection
AR Act 1096 (2019 AV)
Arkansas · Effective 2019-07-24 · Act 1096 of 2019; Ark. Code Ann. §§ 27-51-1801 et seq.
Arkansas authorized commercial driver-assistive truck platooning and limited driverless AV pilots, established a Pilot Program for Driverless-Capable Vehicles administered by the Arkansas State Highway Commission, and required pilots to file insurance and incident-reporting plans.
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In effect Limited protection
AR DOI AI Bulletin
AR · Effective 2024-07-31 · Arkansas Insurance Department Bulletin 13-2024 (2024-07-31)
The AR Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in AR must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
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In effect Limited protection
Arkansas Deepfake Sexual Content Act
Arkansas · Effective 2025-04-17 · 2025 Ark. Acts 827 (HB 1529)
Arkansas criminalizes creating or distributing deepfake sexual imagery — AI-generated or digitally manipulated images that appear authentic and depict an identifiable person in nudity or sexual conduct without consent. First offense is a Class A misdemeanor, repeats are felonies; victims can sue for punitive damages, and the Attorney General can sue platforms that lack reasonable safeguards against generating this content.
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In effect Moderate protection
Arkansas public entity AI/ADS policy mandate (Act 848, 2025)
Arkansas · Effective 2025-08-03 · Ark. Act 848 / HB 1958 (2025 Regular Session), eff. August 3, 2025
Arkansas Act 848 (HB 1958), signed April 17, 2025 and effective August 3, 2025, requires every state agency, school district, county, municipality, and other public entity in Arkansas to adopt a written policy governing the use of artificial intelligence and automated decision-making tools. Each policy must: (1) require a human official to make or confirm any final decision affecting citizens; (2) provide staff training on AI tool limitations; (3) make the policy publicly accessible upon request; and (4) prohibit using AI to make decisions based on political affiliation or for unlawful purposes. Passed unanimously — 93-0 in the House, 35-0 in the Senate.
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In effect Limited protection
Arkansas Frank Broyles Act AI amendment — voice and likeness protection (2025)
Arkansas · Effective 2025-02-25 · Ark. Act 159 / HB 1071 (2025 Regular Session), amending Ark. Code Ann. § 4-75-1101
Arkansas Act 159 (HB 1071), signed February 25, 2025, amends the Frank Broyles Publicity Rights Protection Act of 2016 to explicitly cover AI-generated voice and likeness. It adds 'voice' — including AI-simulated voice that sounds like a real person — and AI-generated images to the rights protected under the Act. Any commercial use of a person's AI-replicated voice or image without explicit consent is a violation. Named for the late UA Razorbacks coach Frank Broyles; became one of the first U.S. publicity-rights laws to specifically address AI-generated audio.
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In effect Limited protection
AR Generative AI Ownership Act (Act 927)
Arkansas · Effective 2025-08-05 · Ark. Act 927 (2025) (HB1876), codified at Ark. Code Ann. tit. 18, ch. 4 (Sec. 18-4-101 et seq.)
Arkansas set default ownership rules for the inputs and outputs of generative AI tools. A person who supplies the input or direction to a generative AI tool owns the content it produces, as long as that content does not infringe existing intellectual property rights. A person who lawfully supplies the data used to train a model owns the resulting trained model. When an employee is directed to use a generative AI tool within the scope of their job, the employer owns the resulting output and model. The law sets property rights rather than prohibitions, so it does not impose penalties.
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In effect Limited protection
Initial Report - Arkansas Artificial Intelligence and Analyt
Arkansas · Effective 2025-02-07 · Initial Report - Arkansas Artificial Intelligence and Analytics Center of Excellence
The Arkansas AI and Analytics Center of Excellence (Department of Shared Administrative Services) delivered the governor an initial report recommending statewide AI governance, a Chief AI Officer, NIST-based evaluation of AI systems, updated procurement policies to safeguard citizen data, and AI-literacy training for state employees.
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In effect Limited protection
Arkansas AI CSAM Law
Arkansas · Effective 2025-04-22 · 2025 Ark. Acts 977 (HB 1877), amending Ark. Code Ann. § 5-27-603
Arkansas expressly criminalizes AI-generated CSAM that is indistinguishable from real child imagery — defining 'computer generated' as AI-produced and 'indistinguishable' as imagery a reasonable person would believe depicts an actual child. Limited exemptions for law enforcement and good-faith AI safety testing.
Federal AI rules that apply in Little Rock, Arkansas
These federal protections apply everywhere in the United States, including Little Rock, Arkansas. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Stronger protection
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective 2025-09-05 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup ruled that training on lawfully purchased books was fair use. The piracy claims (LibGen ingestion) proceeded toward settlement; in September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement covering ~500,000 works. Judge Alsup granted preliminary approval September 25, 2025 and final approval July 20, 2026. The appeal period runs through August 19, 2026; class members will not receive payments until at least end of 2026.
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In effect Stronger protection
Benavides v. Tesla (Autopilot)
S.D. Fla. · Effective 2025-08-01 · Benavides v. Tesla, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-21940 (S.D. Fla. Aug. 1, 2025)
A Florida federal jury found Tesla 33% liable in August 2025 for the 2019 death of Naibel Benavides Leon, in a crash involving Autopilot. The jury awarded $243M ($129M compensatory + $200M punitive); in February 2026 the court denied Tesla's post-trial motions and upheld the verdict in full — the first Autopilot wrongful-death verdict against Tesla.
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In effect Stronger protection
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective 2025-06-23 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Stronger protection
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective 2025-05-19 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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Blocked / in litigation Stronger protection
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective 2025-04-16 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 16, 2025)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was preliminarily enjoined on February 12, 2024, then permanently enjoined on April 16, 2025 when the district court granted summary judgment for NetChoice. The state appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the district court's injunction in 2026.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective 2025-03-18 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is dispositive as a matter of statutory law. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Stronger protection
Thomson Reuters v. Ross
D. Del. · Effective 2025-02-11 · Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-00613 (D. Del. Feb. 11, 2025)
Thomson Reuters sued legal-research startup Ross Intelligence in 2020 for copying Westlaw headnotes to train a competing AI legal-research tool. In February 2025, Judge Stephanos Bibas (sitting by designation) granted summary judgment to Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement and rejected Ross's fair-use defense — the first definitive U.S. ruling on AI-training fair use. No jury trial occurred: a 2023 opinion had denied summary judgment and pointed toward trial, but the court invited renewed briefing and reversed course in the 2025 ruling.
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In effect Stronger protection
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective 2024-11-20 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Stronger protection
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective 2024-04-01 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Stronger protection
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective 2024-02-08 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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