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• Education

  Stillwater transgender-bathroom policy in place ‘for years’

  Amidst pushback from parents about Stillwater Public Schools’ policy of allowing students to choose the bathroom facility that aligns with their self-proclaimed gender identity and not biology, the school’s superintendent recently announced that policy has been in place “for many years.”

  Ray Carter  |  April 7, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Justice delayed, denied due to McGirt

  In July 2020, Crystal Marie Haworth walked into the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Office covered in blood and admitted that she tried to cut off Leonard Brokeshoulder’s head, according to law enforcement officials.

  Ray Carter  |  March 31, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Judicial-nomination reform wins Oklahoma Senate approval

  Legislation that would reform the state’s judicial nominating process has won easy approval in the Oklahoma Senate.

  Ray Carter  |  March 22, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Post-McGirt, no tribal facilities to hold prisoners

  Once a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively declared much of eastern Oklahoma is composed of tribal reservations, tribal governments became responsible for prosecuting many crimes committed by Indians against Indians on those reservation lands.

  Ray Carter  |  March 22, 2022

• Law & Principles

  McGirt decision defunding courts, public safety

  The U.S. Supreme Court’s McGirt v. Oklahoma decision, which created jurisdictional chaos in Oklahoma by effectively declaring that most of eastern Oklahoma remains Indian reservations, is indirectly defunding court systems and public-safety entities throughout much of the state, according to the Senate’s top budget official.

  Ray Carter  |  March 15, 2022

• Education, Culture & the Family

  Corey DeAngelis to receive OCPA’s Citizenship Award

  Corey DeAngelis, national director of research at the American Federation for Children, will be the recipient of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affair’s 2022 Citizenship Award.

  Sheridan Betts  |  March 2, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Judicial-nomination transparency measure clears committee

  Legislation that would allow the governor to select from a wide range of judicial applicants, with nominees required to then receive Senate confirmation, has won easy approval from a state Senate committee.

  Ray Carter  |  March 1, 2022

• Law & Principles

  OCPA 2022 legislative scorecard: Watch list update (March 1 2022)

  This is an updated watch list of bills that are eligible to be included on OCPA’s legislative scorecard for Oklahoma’s 2022 legislative session.

  Staff  |  March 1, 2022

• Budget & Tax, Education, Law & Principles

  Bold reforms for a post-pandemic Oklahoma

  In the aftermath of the pandemic, Oklahoma’s policymakers should put parents in charge of education with a universal Education Savings Account, eliminate the personal income tax, and reform our state’s dysfunctional regulatory system.

  Curtis Shelton, Greg Forster, Ph.D., Byron Schlomach, Ph.D. & Andrew C. Spiropoulos  |  February 21, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Hughes County sheriff says tribe ignoring McGirt duties, crime victims

  Since the U.S. Supreme Court upended law-enforcement jurisdiction throughout most of eastern Oklahoma with its McGirt v. Oklahoma ruling, tribal government officials have claimed they will fill much of the resulting law-enforcement gap.

  Ray Carter  |  February 11, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Defending McGirt, tribal leaders ignore, dismiss Indian victims

  In their efforts to defend the McGirt v. Oklahoma ruling that Gov. Kevin Stitt wants curtailed or overturned, Oklahoma tribal leaders have increasingly taken an unexpected tack. They often ignore—and in one high-profile case appeared to dismiss as “made up”—the plight of tribal citizens who are victims of crimes that may now go unpunished because of McGirt.

  Ray Carter  |  February 10, 2022

• Culture & the Family

  Hofmeister backed by tribes, casinos

  Individuals and entities associated with two groups substantially intertwined in Oklahoma—tribal governments and casinos—represented a significant share of donations to the Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Joy Hofmeister in the fourth quarter of 2021, according to a report filed with the Oklahoma Ethics Commission.

  Ray Carter  |  February 9, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Stitt: McGirt decision ‘jeopardizes justice’ in Oklahoma

  Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Cherokee, is one of the most prominent elected Indian officeholders in the nation. But he remains steadfast in his opposition to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared a reservation was never formally disestablished in Oklahoma, saying that decision has effectively impeded justice for many Oklahomans of all backgrounds.

  Ray Carter  |  February 7, 2022

• Law & Principles

  OCPA 2022 legislative scorecard: Watch list

  This is an updated watch list of bills that are eligible to be included on OCPA’s legislative scorecard for Oklahoma’s 2022 legislative session.

  Staff  |  February 6, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Tribes send mixed messages on McGirt

  Since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which effectively declared that most of eastern Oklahoma remains tribal reservation land, state tribal governments have touted the decision and proclaimed little or no harm has come from the ruling.

  Ray Carter  |  February 3, 2022

• Culture & the Family

  Workers, employers win with vax-mandate ruling

  Oklahoma’s workers and their employers alike won an important victory when the U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the Biden administration’s COVID-vaccine mandate for private businesses. That mandate clearly exceeded the government’s authority, opened the door for further abuses of power, and would have had a significant negative impact on the labor supply.

  Jonathan Small  |  February 2, 2022

• Law & Principles

  U.S. Supreme Court to consider McGirt limits

  The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case brought by the State of Oklahoma that could lead to curtailment of the court’s prior decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which effectively held that most of eastern Oklahoma consists of Indian reservations.

  Ray Carter  |  January 21, 2022

• Budget & Tax

  McGirt decision creating millions in new expenses for state

  While the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in McGirt v. Oklahoma may have stripped the state of the power to prosecute countless crimes involving a mix of Indians and non-Indians in eastern Oklahoma, it has not reduced state law-enforcement expenses, officials told lawmakers at a recent budget hearing.

  Ray Carter  |  January 17, 2022

• Law & Principles

  Court rules against Biden vaccine mandate

  The Biden administration’s effort to make COVID-19 vaccines a condition of employment throughout the private sector has been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court, although the court separately ruled that the Biden administration does have the authority to impose a vaccine mandate on health-care workers at facilities receiving Medicaid or Medicare funding.

  Ray Carter  |  January 14, 2022

• Law & Principles

  U.S. Supreme Court allows McGirt limit to stand

  The U.S. Supreme Court has denied a petition for certiorari, leaving in place an Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals’ decision declaring the high court’s McGirt ruling will not be applied retroactively.

  Ray Carter  |  January 11, 2022