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Locked doors, a police extortion video and a city attorney who tried to outlaw recording.
Latest in this investigation · Jan 29, 2026
In Gore, Oklahoma, police are accused of extorting a family. When confronted for body cam footage, officials hid, locked doors, and stalked us. Unacceptable abuse of power. #PoliceCorruption #OpenRecords #GoreOklahoma #Accountability
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In Gore, Oklahoma, officials are accused of covering up extortion. After a year of open records requests, the doors are locked, and security cameras follow us as we seek body cam footage. #PoliceCorruption #OpenRecords #GoreOklahoma #Accountability
Gore, Oklahoma is failing! The city isn't producing documents in a reasonable time frame as required by Oklahoma law. This has to stop! #OklahomaLaw #GovernmentAccountability #Transparency #LocalPolitics
Gore, Oklahoma disregards state law on document production, showing incompetence. Cities can't take forever; the reasonable time rule is clear. Gore will be the example that forces this to stop in Oklahoma. #OklahomaLaw #GovernmentAccountability #LegalCompliance
Small town officials shut down city hall and monitor journalists with security cameras to avoid releasing body camera footage showing police extorting money and bikes from residents. When reporters finally obtained the video, it captured shocking exchanges.
In Gore, Oklahoma, City Attorney Matthew Price engineered a plan to ban photography inside City Hall. What was he afraid the public would see? Guerrilla News went to find out.
City Hall in Gore, Oklahoma has been conducting construction without required state building permits, blocking emergency exits and creating potential ADA violations. Officials admit they don't have permits but promise to "look into it."
Despite fierce public opposition and constitutional arguments, Gore's city council voted to ban recording inside taxpayer-funded buildings. Citizens packed the meeting, cameras rolled, and things got heated when officials retreated to a closed-door meeting.
Gore officials propose banning all recording in public buildings except for police, following citizen complaints about town clerk's alleged misconduct. "A few bad actors" cited as justification for eliminating transparency that's existed since 1776.
After being warned Gore would be hostile to records requests, journalists expecting confrontation instead find cooperative clerk who knows proper procedure. The stark contrast caps a day investigating "gypsy cops" across Oklahoma small towns.
