Part one: After a three-year investigation that cost more than $600,000, the state suddenly dropped its efforts to revoke Dr. Steven Anagnost’s license. Did a phone call from Texas Gov. Rick Perry to Gov. Mary Fallin have anything to do with that?
A grass roots group has drawn up a list of recommendations to overhaul the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office, including a citizen oversight board, dash and body cameras and new policies governing reserve deputies.
Tulsa County District Judge James Caputo recused Friday from presiding over a former reserve deputy’s manslaughter case, following an investigation by The Frontier into apparent undisclosed conflicts of interest.
In a disclosure he filed in Bates’ case, District Judge James Caputo did not mention his past representation of the witness, Tulsa County Sheriff’s Deputy Lance Ramsey. A video of the shooting, which gained national attention, begins with Ramsey and Eric Harris sitting in a pickup truck discussing the transaction.
District Judge James Caputo filed a disclosure stating he had served as a TCSO deputy. The judge did not mention the time he spent as a reserve deputy at the same time as the reserve deputy whose manslaughter case Caputo is hearing.
After confirmation that several people had died and dozens were injured when a car slammed into OSU’s homecoming parade, football seemed so insignificant.
Undersheriff Rick Weigel has a relative working as a sheriff’s deputy, raising questions about whether he could be violating state nepotism laws when he takes over for Sheriff Stanley Glanz next month.
The Frontier is passionately committed to bringing readers the best in-depth and watchdog journalism on the Great Plains. That’s why we’re excited to announce we will be partnering on occasional stories and investigative reporting with our friends at Tulsa’s NewsOn6 and News9 in Oklahoma City.
