>>Another Oklahoma representative and a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Rep. Josh Brecheen...

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“As people are learning and growing and trying to do their best to protect and serve, we have to understand where we’ve come from, so that the greater good is being accomplished,” Brecheen said.

https://oklahomawatch.org/2026/01/26/native-americans-are-getting-swept-up-by-ice-republicans-say-there-will-be-mistakes/

#Indigenous #ICE #Republicans #GOP #OklahomaWatch #JoshBrecheen #Choctaw #USPol #USA

>>Though potentially capable of understanding basic vocabulary and short texts well enough to perform simple tasks like filling out forms, an estimated 560,000 Oklahomans fall below the state/national average literacy level and find it difficult to synthesize more than one source of written information, make low-level inferences, or paraphrase. <<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/10/09/do-one-in-five-oklahomans-struggle-with-low-literacy-or-functional-illiteracy/
#Oklahoma #Literacy #Illiteracy #OklahomaWatch

When fear is weaponized, people believe things they *know* can't be true and they make decisions that they *know* will cause great harm.

>>“We had taxicabs that were bringing large volumes of women and children to our community and being dropped off there, being illegal immigrants who couldn’t speak no English,” [Sterling, Oklahoma Police Chief Brad] Alexander said. “I have a fear of children being abducted, and I never want something like that to ever happen on my watch.”<<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/08/19/oklahomas-small-town-police-take-federal-immigration-role/
#Oklahoma #Immigrants #ICE #OklahomaWatch #Fear #Policing #SmallTownUSA

This is Oklahoma: There are 1,355 sentenced prisoners awaiting transfer from county jails to state Department of Corrections custody. The DOC is at 95% capacity and has 834 vacant beds.

Multiple county sheriffs say the DOC will only accept smaller numbers of prisoners at a time. The DOC says there's "not been an agency mandate" to accept fewer prisoners. The DOC has to pay only $27 (soon to be $32) per day for the counties holding sentenced prisoners even though the DOC's numbers says it costs from $57 to $108.

And, our (very ambitious) governor is pushing for a tax cut. This is Oklahoma.

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/08/04/as-oklahoma-prison-transfers-slow-jail-backlogs-grow/

#Oklahoma #Prisons #OklahomaWatch #CriminalJustice

>>The source recounted personal conversations with drug task force members who reported writing as many as 10 such citations per day. Numerous Guymon police officers had expressed concern that drug task force members making a salary of $50,000 per year could nevertheless afford to buy cars for their children and live in homes well beyond their means, the source said.<<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/21/anonymous-source-sheds-light-on-panhandle-police-impunity/

#Panhandle #OklahomaWatch #Oklahoma #Corruption #CriminalJustice #Guymon #DrugTaskForce #LawEnforcement

Warning: r-word mentioned, nastiness regarding disabled people

>>Goodwin leads Oklahoma Predator Prevention, one of many predator-catching groups that proliferated across the internet since the rise of social video-sharing sites such as YouTube. In 2022, the Washington Post identified at least 160 such groups across the United States. <<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/08/01/predator-hunters-tactics-draw-fans-but-concern-police-and-advocates/

#PredatorHunters #Oklahoma #OklahomaWatch #SocialMedia #DisabledPeople #Autism #CriminalJustice #Vigilantes

>>At that time, the source said court proceedings had been launched in as many as 15 cases.

Patients were sent to Laureate to make them easier to hide, the source said.

Now, the source says that seizures may be accelerating, including one as recent as July 10.

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“You don’t want to go to Laureate, because you’ll be disappeared,” the source said.<<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/28/failed-seizure-of-a-vulnerable-vet-at-oklahomas-largest-hospital-hints-at-crisis-to-come-for-aging-population/
#Oklahoma #Veterans #HealthCare #PsychiatricCare #SaintFrancisHealthSystem #SaintFrancisHospital #OklahomaWatch #Laureate #Guardianship

>>No. Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida, supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, offered a non-prosecution agreement in July 2007, which Epstein signed in September and led to his guilty plea and incarceration in June 2008. All of that occurred while George W. Bush was president.<<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/31/did-president-barack-obama-oversee-the-jeffrey-epstein-plea-agreement-as-sen-markwayne-mullin-claimed/

#BarackObama #JeffreyEpstein #MarkwayneMullin #OklahomaWatch #Oklahoma #USPol #AlexanderAcosta

Insurance Actuaries in Texas and Kansas Save Homeowners Millions While Oklahomans Pay Top Dollar

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/16/oklahoma-has-nations-highest-average-homeowners-insurance-premiums/
#Oklahoma #Homeowners #Insurance #OklahomaWatch #SmallGovernment #Actuaries #ActuarialScience

>>the lab in Oklahoma is one of more than 10 weather and oceanographic laboratories listed for termination in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s request for funding next year, part of much larger cuts requested by the . . . administration. If approved by Congress, NOAA would receive just $4.5 billion in funding next year, meaning it would have $2 billion less and 12,000 fewer personnel <<

https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/07/08/trump-administration-wants-to-close-down-key-weather-labs-nationwide/

#OklahomaWatch #Oklahoma #NOAA #Weather #NSSL #USPol