For some law enforcement agencies, audit of untested rape kits a daunting task
Tulsa Police Department so far has audited five years that span through 2010 to 2016 and found 680 untested rape kits.
‘Is anybody home? We have blankets’: Count offers snapshot of homelessness in Tulsa
Though the day was unseasonably warm, temperatures had dropped quickly as night approached. With flashlights and care packages that included a blanket, bottled water and snacks, the team set out just before sunset.
‘Return to its roots’: New facilities and cultural shift change course of state juvenile justice agency
“You can’t disrupt something from the inside. The idea is when you come from outside, from something with different perspective, that’s when you can disrupt things. We very intentionally wanted to disrupt business as usual at OJA.”
Nonprofit aims to show film on women’s incarceration in all counties before November elections
Ellen Stackable, executive director of Poetic Justice, has an ambitious goal: To show the 22-minute documentary in each of Oklahoma’s 77 counties before elections kick off in November.
The nurse is out: Schools have more sick kids, but fewer nurses to care for them
School Nurses and agency employees told The Frontier while the number of nurses is shrinking, the amount of students who have acute and chronic health needs is growing.
How cash-strapped college students increase poverty levels in Oklahoma
Data shows how some Oklahoma communities would likely see their overall poverty rate cut almost in half when omitting college students from the overall calculation.
Contractor says state government stiffed it for work on Oklahoma energy conservation program
The business said it has been paid only a fraction of what its state contract promised. Now the company has brought a lawsuit against dozens of state agencies.
Audits of state’s untested rape kits unlikely to be completed by deadline
Several agencies have said they do not have any untested kits and have not submitted anything to the task force. Small departments that claim to not have used any rape kits might not have turned in an audit.
