During Fiscal Year 2017, Oklahoma district attorneys were awarded more than $6.2 million in cash — up from $3.1 million the prior year — believed to be involved in the drug trade that was seized by law enforcement.
Using records, interviews and police reports, The Frontier has collected stories on each of June’s 14 homicide victims. Their stories illustrate the varying nature of the city’s rising homicide figures.
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.
The nine-page claim, obtained by The Frontier through an Open Records Act request, alleges inhumane treatment, gross negligence and deliberate indifference caused the 16-year-old’s death.
Bates’ supervision was transferred back to Tulsa County, DOC spokesman Matt Elliott confirmed on Friday. Elliott said he couldn’t comment on why Bates’ supervision returned to Oklahoma, but did say Bates could not live out of state if his supervision was in Tulsa.
Since 1970, the number of people overall in Tulsa’s jail has increased by more than 380 percent and the number of women in the jail grew by 3,400 percent, the Vera Institute’s report found.
Our five-part series uncovered a war-within-a-war that requires some victims to fight for their own justice while the government and other agencies struggle for personnel, funding and proven training methods to assist victims.
The Shadow Mountain Behavioral Health Facility filed suit against the former employee, Dee Ann Paisley, in the District Court of Tulsa County on Nov. 1.