/2 The agency has denied The Frontier’s open records requests for surveillance video, incident reports, and other records related to the seven most recent fatalities, citing a law that exempts some law enforcement records from being disclosed. The Frontier is contesting the denials.
#foioklahoma By Garrett Yalch, readfrontier.org: The Tulsa Police Department stopped issuing press releases for deaths at the jail in 2023. None of them have been previously reported in the media.
HOUSE BILL 3024
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#foioklahoma By Emma Murphy, oklahomavoice.com: “We saw some agencies last year give tremendously big raises or bonuses, and we found out about it in the newspaper,” Lowe said. “That’s not the way it’s supposed to work.”
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/2 … found the proposed plan would allow twice the amount of hydrogen fluoride emissions as the most sophisticated smelters in the world, which are in Norway.
#foioklahoma By Adora Brown, oklahomawatch.org: Harrington pulled public records for the smelter and, after some calculations that factored in the Inola facility’s large size, …
/2 Though that is all for naught, as the video does not exist.
#foioklahoma By Brodie Myers, kjrh.com: Additionally, Tyler and Glunt say they were quoted $3,000 to review the potential video. Tulsa Police Department did not confirm that number, but referred 2 News to a chart that sets the prices for open records.
#foioklahoma By Jerry Bohnen, okenergytoday.com: An investigation by Investigate Midwest discovered the findings through the use of the Oklahoma Open Records law in which it received records showing how NextEra was able to avoid the $2.5 million construction fee.
#foioklahoma By Jerry Bohnen, okenergytoday.com: Opponents & critics of a proposed data center at Claremore are stunned over the recent arrest of one protester, all because he attempted to speak more than the 3-minute time limit placed on public speakers at the city council meeting.
/2 … who manages the fee, in a May 22, 2025, email, obtained by Investigate Midwest through an open records request. “Skeleton Creek hereby proposes a fee of $15,000.00.”
#foioklahoma By Juan Vassallo, agdaily.com: “Although we still have questions about the necessity of a building permit for solar arrays, we are agreeable to pay a fee in this case for the sake of expediency,” Banks wrote to the Oklahoma state fire marshal, …
SENATE BILL 1420
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/2 Sen. Mark Mann, D-Oklahoma City, has won the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee for legislation to ensure public voices can be heard before public bodies vote on agenda items. Senate Bill 1420 was approved on Tuesday.
#foioklahoma By Jerry Bohnen, okenergytoday.com: While a state House committee recently approved a bill to allow the Oklahoma Corporation Commission to keep certain of its files “confidential” & exempt from the state Open Records Act, another effort in the legislature is going the opposite way.
#foioklahoma By Jordan Davis, oklahoman.com: A proposal that would have required the Oklahoma Secondary School Activities Association to make its records and audits public failed to advance Tuesday morning at the Oklahoma State Capitol.
#foioklahoma By Emma Murphy, oklahomavoice.com: “Oklahoma voters deserve transparency at every level of government,” Bruce Boone said. “This interim portal ensures that disclosure continues without delay while full electronic integration is finalized.”
/2 … an automobile and technology allowance of $10,200 per year, and insurance and retirement benefits.
#foioklahoma By Nuria Martinez-Keel, oklahomavoice.com: Rodrequez's superintendent contract, which Oklahoma Voice obtained through an open records request, shows he will earn a base annual salary of $265,000, …
/2 … and while the record provides information about how members voted on each appeal for football independence, it does not give any insight into the members' thought process.
#foioklahoma Opinion by Jenni Carlson, oklahoman.com: The OSSAA fulfilled an open-records request from The Oklahoman seeking minutes of the board meeting, …
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/2 But after she requested video of the incident from officers’ body and dashboard cameras, she said the department told her it would take eight-plus months for her to receive it.
#foioklahoma By Ross Terrell, theokeagle.com: Karmen Glunt says her family wants “transparency and honesty” from Tulsa police after officers shot and killed her brother, Michael, Feb. 8.
HOUSE BILL 3471
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/3 Joey Senat, a retired journalism professor and expert on Oklahoma's Open Records and Open Meetings Acts, criticized the lack of committee discussion about a proposed law that would restrict the public's access to government records.
/2 A brief amendment to Oklahoma's Open Records Act would add the OCC and two other agencies to the list of state agencies allowed to keep litigation files and investigatory reports confidential.
#foioklahoma By Dale Denwalt, oklahoman.com: Oklahoma lawmakers are considering whether to keep some documents at the Oklahoma Corporation Commission out of public view.
House Bill 2940 by Rep. Jim Olsen, R-Sallisaw, strengthens the right to record public meetings.
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