State Finance Secretary Preston Doerflinger, under fire for his handling of the state budget, was a member of The Royal Order of Jesters for the past six years. The Jesters bill themselves as a “luxury organization” and their handbook includes the pledge: “What I see here, what I hear here, shall stay here when I leave here.”
Mayor Dewey Bartlett says Tulsa Police Department’s unofficial pay-for-promotion practice isn’t right and calls for changes to policy.
Despite winning in a landslide on March 1, the sheriff candidate has spent much of the past two months responding to one controversy after another.
In today’s episode of Listen Frontier, NewsOn6 reporter Allison Harris, Frontier Creative Director Cary Aspinwall, and host R.J. Young discuss the ‘Buying Stripes’ allegations made toward TPD, as well as ongoing prison reform efforts we reported on earlier this week, and today’s story about a Tulsa Jail inmate who reportedly attempted suicide there and later died in a local hospital.
Family members of sick or dying inmates often face a difficult decision — either sign the inmate out of official custody, thereby taking over the financial burden of costly medical bills, or risk not having hospital access to a family member who might be on death’s door.
City auditor says she will “kick off an investigation to find out what kind of policy changes need to be done” to address the practice of police paying superior officers to retire early. “I am certain this will not go unaddressed by anybody, at all levels.”
Tulsans go to the polls April 5 to vote on the $844.6 million Vision Tulsa sales tax package. The proposal includes a permanent sales tax for public safety that would provide $272 million for the Police, Fire and 911 departments over the first 15 years.
An investigation by The Frontier and NewsOn6 has found payments to superior officers who agree to retire early range from $20,000 to $50,000. The practice — not sanctioned by TPD — is believed to have occurred at nearly every rank.
