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Deputies, prosecutors and commissioners confront citizens and reporters at public meetings.
Latest in this investigation · Jul 3, 2026
When citizens challenged a suspiciously vague executive session item about "economic development," officials refused to say what they were discussing behind closed doors. The confrontation over Oklahoma's Open Meetings Act escalated fast.
Read the latestSeven deputies, one petitioner and no law to cite.
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When a public official tries to kick citizens out of the courthouse and can't quote a real law, you do what any reasonable citizen would do: you go to CVS and buy him a care package.
An Oklahoma prosecutor tried to kick citizens out of a public courthouse and couldn't name the law he was using. What they delivered to his office next is something you have to see to believe.
Rogers County sent an assistant DA and seven armed deputies to stop one man collecting recall signatures at the courthouse. He demanded a law. They never found one. The footage shows why.
