When the coronavirus pandemic first arrived in Oklahoma five years ago, The Frontier reported on a lack of transparency in government spending, COVID outbreaks in state prisons and struggling hospitals.
A state investigator raised questions about how much school leaders knew about a scheme to defraud Tulsa Public Schools of at least $800,000 before notifying the police, documents show.
The Trump Administration is cutting programs labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes.
A bill that would have restricted the locations of homeless shelters is dormant for now. But it’s just one of a spate of recent measures penalizing service providers or people experiencing homelessness.
The national media descended on Tulsa, putting pressure not just on the community as a whole but on the county’s legal system as it tried to cope with yet another high-profile police killing.
Flock Safety’s marketing materials portray Tulsa as a national success story and “a beacon for what modern, data-driven policing can achieve.” But crime data tells a different story.
Thousands of Oklahomans got payments from a Biden-era program to help address generations of farm lending discrimination. Now the Trump Administration wants to end programs that could be labeled as DEI. Some Oklahoma programs have already seen funding freezes.
Some jails in the state have faced ongoing issues with detainee deaths and poor inspection results. State inspectors ruled most county jails didn’t comply with the standards in 2024.
