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Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs to host Friday, February 26 recognition ceremony for Korean Consulate General
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Oklahoma City – The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs (ODVA) will host a recognition ceremony for the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in appreciation of the consulate’s large donation of face masks for Oklahoma state veterans at 9 a.m. on Friday, February 26, 2021 at the 45th Division Infantry Museum in Northeast Oklahoma City.
Consulate General Ahn Myung Soo is donating 10,000 KF94 face masks to be distributed to Oklahoma veterans. Masks will be shared with the veteran residents of the seven state owned and operated veteran centers and with various veterans’ service organizations to include those represented on the Oklahoma Veterans Commission. Representatives from other veterans’ service organizations in attendance will include the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Military Order of the Purple Heart and the National Guard Association of Oklahoma who will also distribute masks to their members.
“We are honored to receive such a generous donation of face masks by Consulate General Soo,” said Joel Kintsel, ODVA executive director. “The KF94 masks are very similar to the N95 masks in that they offer a high-level of protection which boosts our confidence in distributing them to our state veterans.”
The masks originate in Korea with ‘KF’ standing for Korean filter and ‘94’ representing a 94 percent standard of filtering out airborne particles. The disposable masks have an adjustable bridge that can be manipulated to get a secure fit over the nose bridge and side flaps contouring the face.
Soo will travel to Oklahoma from the consular in Houston, Texas, where he oversees a jurisdiction of five south central states including Oklahoma.
About ODVA: The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs provides resources and services to military veterans residing in the state of Oklahoma including assistance with state and federal veterans’ benefits, disability claims, burial and survivor benefits, healthcare, employment, education, suicide prevention, entrepreneurship and veteran-owned businesses, women veteran services and veterans in agriculture.
ODVA also owns and operates seven nursing homes throughout Oklahoma for veterans needing long-term care. To learn more, visit www.odva.ok.gov.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Sen. Carri Hicks has cleared the first legislative hurdle to keep individuals from being unnecessarily punished for not appearing in court when they are incarcerated or detained by law enforcement.
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Senate Bill 44 Tuesday (February 23) to dismiss any charges or warrants for such individuals — a move the Oklahoma City Democrat says will help stop the unfair practice.
“When someone is in jail or police custody and aren’t allowed to appear in court, that individual shouldn’t be punished with a warrant or additional charges,” Hicks said. “This is a necessary change to drop the fines for a situation the individual has no control over.”
S.B. 44 requires any charges or warrants issued for failure to appear in court to be dismissed upon the defendant showing the court that he or she was incarcerated or otherwise detained by law enforcement at the time of the failure to appear.
The bill is now on the Senate floor.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – A measure allowing social media users to sue for damages against any social media website that censors a user’s political or religious speech was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday. State Sen. Rob Standridge, R-Norman, authored Senate Bill 383 to eliminate selective censorship of opinion on social media and to ensure free speech is treated fairly.
“There have been cases where social media posts discriminate against conservative views and social media platforms censor or delete posts supporting those views,” Standridge said. “Nonviolent political posts are being censored just for having a differing opinion and citizens should be able to have a chance at civil recourse.”
Under S.B. 383, users in the state could sue any owner or operator of a social media website that purposely censors a user’s political or religious speech. The measure applies to deleted posts or the use of algorithms to suppress such speech. The websites would be immune from liability if any censored posts called for immediate acts of violence or enticed criminal conduct. It would also exempt posts involved in bullying minors, false impersonation or those from an inauthentic source. The measure does not apply to individual users who censor the speech of other users.
Users above the age 18 could seek damages of a minimum of $75,000 per intentional deletion or censoring of that user’s speech, along with actual damages and punitive damages if aggravating factors are present. The prevailing party may also be awarded costs and reasonable attorney fees.
“Selective censoring of opinion on social media should not be prevalent in a country where freedom of speech is a fundamental right,” Standridge said. “While it is important to keep the internet safe by censoring violent or other criminal content, censoring posts solely for a differing political opinion is wrong. This measure will protect free speech.”
The bill is now now on the Senate floor.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – Supporters for Julius Jones are scheduled to present the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board with a petition of more than six million signatures Thursday (February 25) calling for Jones’ sentence to be commuted.
The Oklahoma Black Caucus released a statement in support of Julius Jones and against Oklahoma’s use of the death penalty. The statement sent to The City Sentinel, CapitolBeatOK and other state news organizations read:
“The Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus, two years ago, submitted a letter to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board supporting the saving of Julius Jones’ life as he has served 21 years.
"Our review of the case, a phone conversation with Julius Jones, and meetings with the family strengthen our on-going support of Julius and his family.
"The district attorney, who sentenced Julius Jones to death recommended a historic high 54 death sentences, yet 27 of his cases were reversed and three people were exonerated due to findings of prosecutorial misconduct. Doubt is cast on the Jones case.
"The issue of questionable due process, a co-defendant turned state’s key witness, racist comments reported from a juror, a withheld file that could be made public, and unfair procedural issues are concerning.
"The facts of racially biased practices are evident in long studied data; the killing of a white male person leads to execution 3 times more than the killing of a black person.
"The bipartisan Oklahoma Death Penalty Review Commission issued a report unanimously recommending that Oklahoma continue its moratorium on executions ‘until significant reforms are accomplished.’
"We oppose state tax-dollar-funded killing. At least 4.1 percent of defendants sentenced to death are innocent according to the National Academy of Sciences.
"We, The Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus, stand staunchly opposed to the death penalty; we pray mercy to be demonstrated and the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board and Gov. Stitt grant clemency.”
Note: Members of the Oklahoma Legislative Black Caucus include: Chair, Rep. Regina Goodwin, Vice-Chair, Rep. Jason Lowe, Sen. George Young, Sen. Kevin Matthews, Rep. Monroe Nichols, Rep. Merleyn Bell, Rep. Ajay Pittman, and Rep. Mauree Turner.
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OKLAHOMA CITY – EPIC Charter Schools has been honored by the Government of Mexico for its support of Hispanic and Mexican students.
In a public ceremony February 10, the state’s largest public school system received a donation of Spanish-language books to be used at its Heritage Academy, a bilingual pre-K through 12 program launched by EPIC Charter Schools in 2020 in Oklahoma City.
The collection of books was presented in person by Mexican Consul General Rodolfo Quilantan, who traveled to Oklahoma City for the event. He said the Mexican government, through its Ministry of Education and Ministry of Foreign Affairs, established the book donation program to support dual-language education and encourage activities focused on students of Mexican descent in the United States.
“The purpose of these Spanish books is so that the American teachers and the parents of the students can work together in order to make the most of the transition from Spanish to English and of course to increase the values of the Mexican culture and Hispanic culture here in Oklahoma,” Quilantan said.
Robert Ruiz, president of Scissortail Community Development Corporation, worked with Hispanic parents in Oklahoma City to spearhead Heritage Academy, which is serving 160 students in its first year. He said the event was important because it not only shined a light on Heritage but also on the great need for such public programs.
“Supporting Spanish-speaking students isn’t just about language. It’s about culture,” he said. “That’s why it’s important that the Heritage Academy emphasizes culturally relevant curriculum and art programs, including Latino Studies, Mariachi and Baile Folklorico”
EPIC Co-Founder Ben Harris thanked Ruiz for partnering with EPIC on the creation of Heritage Academy. He also thanked Quilantan for the generous donation.
“We’re excited about our outreach to Mexican-American families and we hope to build on it in the future. We are very honored to serve the community,” he said.
The ceremony was streamed live via EPIC’s Facebook page and can be viewed by cutting and pasting this link: https://ift.tt/3dIi2Ez
Note: EPIC is the largest public school system in Oklahoma, serving nearly 60,000 students statewide in the 2020-2021 school year and employing more than 2,000 educators and administrators throughout the state.
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Candidates affiliated with the group Parent Voice Oklahoma (PVO) found success in last night’s local school board elections, with two PVO-endorsed candidates finishing in first place and another automatically going on to an April run-off.
PVO was launched in November of 2020, when it held a rally at the Oklahoma State Capitol calling for schools to reopen for in-person instruction. Since then, the organization has worked to field candidates that are committed to empowering parents and ensuring their voices are heard.
In the February 9 school board elections, Margaret Best of Edmond and Marshall Baker of Stillwater, both supported by PVO, finished first in their respective elections and will now be in April run-off elections.
In Deer Creek, Derek Lariviere, who helped organize the November PVO rally at the Oklahoma State Capitol, will automatically be placed in an April run-off.
As explained in a post-election press release from Parent Voice Oklahoma, “In districts where PVO worked to field candidates, turnout also increased dramatically. In Edmond, the last competitive election for school board had 1098 votes cast. In 2021, that number rose to 2248.”
The PVO press release, sent to CapitolBeatOK.com, The City Sentinel newspaper and other news organizations, continued, “Even in school districts like Owasso, where PVO-backed candidate Kristin Vivar missed a runoff by 15 votes, grassroots organization helped increase turnout from 1223 votes cast in the last election cycle to 1868 this year.
“Parent Voice Oklahoma has also worked with state lawmakers to support significant education reform legislation. That includes Senate Bill 210, which allows a member of a school district board of education to be removed from office by a recall petition; House Bill 2241, which would fund schools based on an accurate and real-time student count; and Senate Bill 783, which allows for a more open transfer policy between school districts.”
Robert Ruiz is the executive director of ChoiceMatters, an Oklahoma City based non-profit that has helped to support PVO. He says parents in Oklahoma are realizing that organization, electoral success and sustained activism are the ways to create meaningful change in schools.
“Parents are generally not invited to the table when it comes to major decisions about public education,” said Ruiz.
“Our educational bureaucracy is entrenched and uninterested in sharing power unless it has to. As I tell our parents, ‘power respects power.’ What we saw [in the election] is parents organizing, entering the political fray, and refusing to be denied power over their children’s education. Parent Voice Oklahoma deserves a lot of credit for igniting that spark and potentially helping Oklahoma change course when it comes to big decisions about public education.”
For more information on Parent Voice Oklahoma, go to parentvoiceok.org.
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The Oklahoma Board of Equalization is composed of seven members.
Six members are statewide elected officials and the seventh is the appointed Secretary of Agriculture. The Board is responsible for certifying the revenue the Oklahoma legislature will have available for appropriation in the coming fiscal year.
Last Tuesday (February 16), the Board, which is chaired by Governor Stitt, voted to approve $9,640,475,940 in revenue to be appropriated by the legislature for fiscal year 2022. That is an increase of $1.8 billion over fiscal year 2021.
Three observations:
First, Oklahoma government’s budget has grown +86 percent in the past eighteen years.
The state budget in 2004, the first year Republicans gained control of the legislature, was $5.16 billion. In 2022 it will be $9.6 billion.
That is amazing, unimaginable growth! According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the per capita income in the Sooner state during the same period was flat.
In 2004, the per capita income in the Sooner state was $29,908. Last year it was $28,422. An Oklahoman making $50,000 in 2004 would be earning $93,000 doing the same job if their personal income had grown at the rate of Oklahoma’s government budget.
That has not happened in the private sector. Oklahoma’s government revenue has outpaced taxpayer’s income and taxpayers should ask why.
Second, the commitment to right-size, downsize, systemize, and restructure Oklahoma government is not there.
When Republicans were campaigning to take control of the legislature twenty years ago, they stumped on the fact Oklahoma government was the largest employer in the state(still is). In 2004, Oklahoma had more state employees per capita than any state in the country(still does). The GOPers promised to make Oklahoma government agencies more efficient and productive if voters would give them control.
Voters gave them that control in 2006, but after nearly two decades of Republican control, Oklahoma state government revenue continues to climb and the Oklahoma state government footprint is virtually the same. Taxpayers should ask why.
Third, Oklahomans need to be vigilant in holding elected officials accountable.
In the challenging times of COVID-19, crazy weather, and Zoom meetings, in-person accessibility to elected officials become difficult. The first bill the legislature passed and the governor signed was Senate Bill 1031 which temporarily has allowed modifications to the Open Meeting Act (OMA) allowing for virtual public meetings.
The governor hinted the changes could pave the way for some permanent changes in the OMA. Citizens need to make sure the OMA is protected and these “temporary modifications” do not result in elected officials ignoring their constituents.
Elected officials should be creative in finding ways to communicate with their constituents during the pandemic. The governor said virtual meetings had increased the number and amount of participation by Oklahoma citizens in their government. That may be true, but a virtual meeting is not a substitute for looking an elected official in the eyes and asking them to justified a vote. When the pandemic has passed, citizens should demand these ‘temporary modifications’ to the OMA be lifted by the legislature.
Governor Kevin Stitt said he would like to see Oklahoma state government use the increase in revenue to replenish the Rainy-Day Fund and to strategically invest in infrastructure projects to help grow the economy.
Those are good ideas -- but isn’t it past time to fulfill a two decade promise to reduce the size of Oklahoma government?
NOTE: Steve Fair is an Oklahoma commentator whose work appears regularly on the CapitolBeatOK.com website. A conservative leader, Steve is also chairman of the Oklahoma Republican Party in the Fourth Congressional District – southwest Oklahoma. Steve can be reached via email at [email protected]. His blog is stevefair.blogpost.com.
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Fed up with local school boards that have been unresponsive to parental requests for full-time, in-person student instruction, parents across Oklahoma have urged state lawmakers to change Oklahoma law to allow recall elections for school-board members.
While parents anticipated opposition to that effort, few expected to have their own education taxes diverted from the classroom to lobbying efforts in opposition to recall elections that would empower those same parents.
“That’s actually really shocking that our tax dollars are paying to fight us,” said Danica Norman, a parent in the Owasso school district. “That is mind-blowing.”
“It is ridiculous,” said Matt Thompson, a parent in the Deer Creek district.
At the Oklahoma Legislature, the Oklahoma State School Boards Association (OSSBA) has been the leading public opponent of Senate Bill 210, which would allow for recall elections of school-board members under certain circumstances. (http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2021-22%20INT/SB/SB210%20INT.PDF)
The OSSBA is, effectively, a taxpayer-funded entity, although it is technically considered a private organization. The OSSBA is funded with payments from its member school districts, which are taxpayer-funded and pay OSSBA dues from school budgets. In exchange for those payments, the OSSBA provides schools with services that include lobbying at the Oklahoma Capitol.
Thus, parents are paying taxes to school districts that then effectively use those taxes to oppose parents’ efforts to increase parental influence in school districts.
In its public position statements, the OSSBA says it will fight for “protection against recall” for school-board members and promote efforts to “minimize liability of individual school board members.” (https://www.ossba.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Position-Statements-2018.pdf)
In a Feb. 1 legislative alert (https://ift.tt/2Zzs56u ), the OSSBA declared that recall elections “take away time and resources from the most important focus of a school board member: the students.”
Yet one district shows how the OSSBA’s anti-recall lobbying may potentially protect not students, but school-board members who turn a blind eye to reported sexual abuse of students.
In 2020, the State Board of Education placed Oologah-Talala Public Schools district on probationary accreditation status and publicly censured the Oologah-Talala board of education and the school’s superintendent “for your roles in contributing to a school culture in which student complaints were treated dismissively, even while five District teachers have faced the loss of their certification following allegations of sexualized misconduct with students.” (https://sde.ok.gov/sites/default/files/documents/files/Oologah-Talala%20-%20Probation%20and%20Reprimand.pdf )
A lawsuit (https://ift.tt/37C8qHr ) has been filed against Oologah-Talala Public Schools on behalf of two female students. Among the claims stated in the lawsuit is that Oologah-Talala “failed to provide its students an environment free of a sexual predator.”
Among the five Oologah-Talala staff members accused of sexual misconduct with students was teacher and coach Trent Winters, who was accused of making numerous sexual comments to female students, including one instance where he “unintentionally” made contact with a student’s breasts and reportedly said (https://ift.tt/3pHEIar), “You liked that didn’t you?” When the student said she did not, Winters reportedly replied, “There is more of that where that came from.”
The lawsuit accuses Oologah-Talala of “failing to investigate Winters properly, before and after these referenced allegations,” states that the school district “hired Winters with knowledge that he had been previously accused of sexual misconduct and harassment of students at his prior employment,” and says that “Winter’s sexual misconduct and harassment of Plaintiffs continued after OTPS had actual notice of Winters’ misconduct.”
As a member of OSSBA, Oologah-Talala Public Schools’ taxpayer funds can help partially fund efforts to kill the recall-election legislation that would otherwise allow parents to forcibly remove members of that district’s board.
Thompson, the Deer Creek parent, works in human resources and, as part of that profession, is involved in the background-check process for many large companies.
“I can tell you that anybody else, in any other line of work, if they were caught to have a background sex-offender check not clear, the people who allowed that to happen would all be held accountable, which could lead to them being fired,” Thompson said. “That’s just how it is.”
But under current law in Oklahoma, school board members who fail to implement appropriate policies to prevent the hiring of sex offenders in schools, or fail to remove reported sex offenders from school settings, do not face automatic removal without individual criminal prosecution and conviction. Those board members may even retain their positions for several more years before facing the voters again.
That’s one of several reasons parents say recall elections should be allowed for school-board members. Under current law, Thompson noted parents have little power even in extreme situations such as Oologah-Talala.
“We can’t do anything,” Thompson said. “We can’t get those people to not show up at our building anymore because they have the power to just keep making decisions.”
In its argument against Senate Bill 210, the OSSBA declared that school-board elections “are accountability in action” and that parents “have the opportunity to choose new board members or run for office when a board member’s term is up.”
The OSSBA also argued that school board members “must focus on students, not what is popular. Governance shouldn’t be a popularity contest, and board members shouldn’t face a recall election for making tough decisions.”
But critics note that school-board members’ terms can run as long as five years, and many board members have been elected with little real public support, due in part to the irregular dates on which school-board elections are conducted.
In this month’s school-board elections, blogger Michael Bates noted that a multi-candidate race in the Tulsa school district—one of Oklahoma’s largest—involved just 379 out of 15,770 eligible voters, or 2.4 percent of those eligible to participate. The winner received just 201 votes—meaning the school-board member was seated with the support of only 1.2 percent of voters in the district. (https://ift.tt/3sgHHYO)
Critics also note the “tough decisions” touted by the OSSBA have involved school closures that experts say are creating significant loss of academic learning and serious emotional-and-social harm to students, and that those closures have occurred even as surrounding districts with similar demographics have successfully reopened for full-time instruction.
In the worst instances, like Oologah-Talala Public Schools, critics note the decisions made by school-board members can have even worse, lifelong consequences for students.
The OSSBA did not respond to a request for comment for this story.
While school districts may use parents’ own tax dollars to fight efforts that would provide parents with greater influence in local schools, Norman said that will not stop families from advocating for their children.
“The parents that are involved, that are upset with the board, that are fighting against the board, are going to continue to seek out solutions,” Norman said. “So if they continue to bow up against us, it doesn’t matter. Parents are going to find a way to get a solution.”
NOTE: Ray Carter’s story first appeared at the website of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA): https://ift.tt/37Bbrru . It is reposted here with permission.
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Oklahoma City, February 20, 2021 – This is not complex.
From the New American Bible translation, words that reached my inner core over the last two days.
The Pandemic still rages, but an end of some sort seems within reach.
The bitter cold is leaving the Great Plains, at least for now.
And then came these words of comfort and challenge.
Perhaps they will bless some among readers late this day.
It’s Saturday night, but Sunday’s coming.
Isaiah 58: 1-9a
Thus says the Lord GOD:
Cry out full-throated and unsparingly,
lift up your voice like a trumpet blast;
Tell my people their wickedness,
and the house of Jacob their sins.
They seek me day after day,
and desire to know my ways,
Like a nation that has done what is just
and not abandoned the law of their God;
They ask me to declare what is due them,
pleased to gain access to God.
“Why do we fast, and you do not see it?
afflict ourselves, and you take no note of it?”
Lo, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits,
and drive all your laborers.
Yes, your fast ends in quarreling and fighting,
striking with wicked claw.
Would that today you might fast
so as to make your voice heard on high!
Is this the manner of fasting I wish,
of keeping a day of penance:
That a man bow his head like a reed
and lie in sackcloth and ashes?
Do you call this a fast,
a day acceptable to the LORD?
This, rather, is the fasting that I wish:
releasing those bound unjustly,
untying the thongs of the yoke;
Setting free the oppressed,
breaking every yoke;
Sharing your bread with the hungry,
sheltering the oppressed and the homeless;
Clothing the naked when you see them,
and not turning your back on your own.
Then your light shall break forth like the dawn,
and your wound shall quickly be healed;
Your vindication shall go before you,
and the glory of the LORD shall be your rear guard.
Then you shall call, and the LORD will answer,
you shall cry for help, and he will say: Here I am!
And, From Genesis Chapter 9: 8-15.
God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
“See, I am now establishing my covenant with you
and your descendants after you
and with every living creature that was with you:
all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals
that were with you and came out of the ark.
I will establish my covenant with you,
that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed
by the waters of a flood;
there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth.”
God added:
“This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come,
of the covenant between me and you
and every living creature with you:
I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign
of the covenant between me and the earth.
When I bring clouds over the earth,
and the bow appears in the clouds,
I will recall the covenant I have made
between me and you and all living beings,
so that the waters shall never again become a flood
to destroy all mortal beings.”
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Colleen McCarty, Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform
The following commentary was sent Friday (February 19) to CapitolBeatOK.com, The City Sentinel newspaper and other news organizations. McCarty spoke on behalf of Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR).
Oklahoma City – We applaud the Senate Public Safety Committee for moving forward on meaningful criminal justice reform with Senate Bill 704. Oklahoma has had one of the highest imprisonment rates in the country for decades.
Our incarceration crisis is caused in large part by the use of sentence enhancements, which add years, decades and even life in prison to a person’s sentence. As a result, Oklahoma hands down some of the harshest sentences in the nation.
These long sentences have historically pushed the Department of Corrections budget to half a billion dollars.
Senate Bill 704 would eliminate sentence enhancements for most nonviolent offenses (not including domestic abuse felonies, animal cruelty, DUI causing great bodily injury, or offenses requiring sex offender registration).
This reform could safely reduce Oklahoma’s prison population by almost 1,400 people over the next decade and save Oklahoma taxpayers at least $137 million.
Those resources could be reinvested in crime prevention and victim support programs to support safer communities in Oklahoma.
Bipartisan organizations, Oklahoma business leaders, policy experts, advocates and Oklahoma families are supportive of Senate Bill 704. We encourage the Senate Appropriations Committee to approve the bill.
Oklahoma needs meaningful reform and it cannot happen without reducing the harsh impact of sentence enhancements.
Note: Colleen McCarty is Policy Counsel with Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform.
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