Rex Berry, the Tulsa County Democratic candidate for sheriff, held a press conference Monday morning to discuss a judge’s order regarding a video of an inmate who died in the jail and Regalado’s actions since he took office in April.
Mayor Dewey Bartlett halted the city’s open-data program in February. A spokeswoman says it will resume in August. “We just put the brakes on it for a short time; we didn’t stop it altogether.”
Up with Trees executive director Steve Grantham and city councilor Anna America join us to talk about efforts to boost the city’s tree coverage.
TPD public information officer Leland Ashley said Thursday that Yates’ transfer “had nothing to do with any article or any type of punishments.”
A federal judge’s order clears the way for a civil rights lawsuit to proceed against the Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office and former Sheriff Stanley Glanz. The judge ruled that jurors could find a “medical unit-wide attitude of inhumanity and indifference” to the suffering of inmate Elliott Williams, who died in the jail six days after languishing on the floor with a broken neck.
The panelists didn’t always have a solution for each problem or concern, they agreed that acknowledging Tulsa’s issues was a step in the right direction.
Hundreds of people filed into the Greenwood Cultural Events Center on Tuesday to listen to a panel of seven people talk about issues of race and policing. Here are the thoughts of five of those attendees on the current climate between police and the communities they serve.
County commissioners in 2013 approved a resolution naming the training center after Glanz. The facility was to be built on 33.8 acres of land at 6094 E. 66th Street North.
