by Michelle Charles | Stillwater News Press | Jan 22, 2020 | In The News
Stillwater’s commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was both a celebration of progress made and a reminder of how much work is left to be done. Mayor Will Joyce asked those present to take “vigorous and positive action” and said he hoped the evening would be...
by Carla Hinton | The Oklahoman | Jan 4, 2020 | In The News
Adam Soltani remembers the anti-Muslim rhetoric that seemed heightened during the 2016 presidential election. Soltani, executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said his agency has created a new guidebook that was...
by Dylan Goforth | The Frontier | Oct 7, 2019 | In The News
Oklahoma’s Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training removed all references to “accreditation” from its website after a Frontier story showed the agency didn’t actually accredit the online courses it was offering to police officers seeking mandatory continuing...
by Stetson Payne | Tulsa World | Sep 6, 2019 | In The News
A Tulsa police officer was fired Wednesday morning, barely a month after graduating from the academy, after the Police Department learned of his past social media posts in support of waterboarding as an interrogation technique and expressing anti-government and...
by Lani Habrock, Government Affairs Director | Tulsa World | Jul 29, 2019 | In The News
I attended the Fort Sill protest in response to the separation and detainment of migrant children. On July 20, hundreds of people from across the nation gathered with fists raised in dissent of government policy. My mind, however, was not singularly focused. I kept...
by Kelsy Schlotthauer | Tulsa World | Jul 11, 2019 | In The News
Officials are condemning apparent hate vandalism that appeared Wednesday on a billboard advertising an ongoing Islamic art exhibition at the Philbrook Museum of Art. The words “HOME GROWN TERROR!” were discovered spray painted below the billboard’s...
