Law / United States / 
Arkansas
Computer trespass
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 intentionally and without authorization access, alter, delete, damage, destroy, or disrupt a computer, computer system, computer network, computer program, or data.
- The offense escalates from a misdemeanor to a Class D felony as the loss or damage caused rises past five hundred dollars and again past two thousand five hundred dollars.
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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
- GAI-RISK-09Information Security
- GAI-RISK-12Value Chain and Component Integration
- OWASP LLM Top 10
- LLM03:2026Excessive Agency
- OWASP Agentic Top 10
- ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-018Agent Authority Least Privilege Framework
- AIR-PREV-023Agentic System Credential Protection Framework
- 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 trespass is a Class C misdemeanor for a first violation causing no loss or damage, a Class B misdemeanor for a repeat violation causing none or a violation causing less than five hundred dollars, a Class A misdemeanor for a violation causing between five hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars, and a Class D felony at two thousand five hundred dollars or more.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Subsection (a) defines computer trespass as intentionally and without authorization accessing, altering, deleting, damaging, destroying or disrupting a computer, system, network, program or data, and subsection (b) grades it from Class C misdemeanor to Class D felony by whether it repeats an earlier violation and by the loss or damage caused. 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
A person commits computer trespass by intentionally and without authorization accessing, altering, deleting, damaging, destroying, or disrupting any computer, computer system, computer network, computer program, or data.
The offense is graded by loss or damage caused: a Class C misdemeanor for a first violation causing none, rising to a Class B misdemeanor for a repeat violation causing none or a violation causing less than five hundred dollars, a Class A misdemeanor between five hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars, and a Class D felony at two thousand five hundred dollars or more. The statute requires both intent and a lack of authorization.
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