During a contentious day in federal court, jurors heard a former TCSO captain describe his investigation into allegations that a detention officer had sexually abused a teenage girl held in the jail. The federal judge also criticized a defense attorney for bringing up the girl’s criminal record.
Jurors watched a former jail guard’s video taped deposition during the first day of hearings in a civil rights lawsuit against former Sheriff Stanley Glanz. The suit alleges the sheriff was ‘indifferent’ to conditions leading to sexual assaults in jail.
In our free weekly Listen Frontier podcast, Kevin Canfield visits with Mechelle Brown, program coordinator at the Greenwood Cultural Center, to talk about some of Tulsa’s important cultural landmarks and tour the Mabel B. Little Heritage House.
As a civil lawsuit trial begins Friday against former Sheriff Stanley Glanz over jail conditions that allegedly allowed the sexual assault of a female juvenile in custody, a grassroots group plans to protest the lack of criminal charges in the case.
Vic Regalado said he’s “not shy” about any of his donors, a group he called “more reflective of Tulsa County” than those of any other candidate.
The latest lawsuit comes just three days after the state’s third largest earthquake, a 5.1, struck near the town of Fairview in northwest Oklahoma. The lawsuit by the Oklahoma chapter of the Sierra Club names Devon Energy Production Co., Chesapeake Operating LLC and New Dominion LLC, and is filed in the Western District of Oklahoma.
The Tulsa County Sheriff’s Office has failed to protect young girls in the jail from sexual assaults and holds them in a medical unit often single staffed with a male officer, a violation of its own policies, an investigation by The Frontier has found.
Last year, both full-time seismologists at OGS left the agency. Months later, neither position has been officially filled. Meanwhile the state has continued to rumble.
