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Law / United States / Arkansas

Computer fraud

Ark. Code Ann. § 5-41-103

In force since .

A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.

Enforcement body
Arkansas prosecuting attorneys, through ordinary criminal prosecution
Obligation class
Access restriction
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not access, or cause to be accessed, a computer, computer system, or computer network to devise or execute a scheme to defraud or extort, or to obtain money, property, or a service through a false or fraudulent intent, representation, or promise.
  • This offense turns on a fraudulent or extortionate purpose, not on whether the access itself was authorized.

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
NIST AI 600-1
OWASP LLM Top 10
OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 2.1Model & Infrastructure Security
  • 3.2Data Governance
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Computer fraud under this section is a Class D felony, regardless of the amount obtained or the loss caused.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Subsection (a) defines computer fraud as intentionally accessing a computer, system or network for the purpose of a scheme to defraud or extort, or of obtaining money, property or a service by false or fraudulent intent, and subsection (b) makes it a Class D felony. Neither subsection requires anyone to create, keep, produce or review a log or record, and the section states no territorial hook.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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A person commits computer fraud by intentionally accessing, or causing to be accessed, any computer, computer system, or computer network for the purpose of devising or executing a scheme to defraud or extort, or of obtaining money, property, or a service through a false or fraudulent intent, representation, or promise.

The offense does not turn on whether the access itself was authorized, only on the fraudulent or extortionate purpose behind it, so ordinary automated access to a public page for a non-fraudulent purpose falls outside this section. Computer fraud is a Class D felony.

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