Oklahoma Watch sues Epic Charter Schools, seeking emails
A sign outside of 50 Penn Place in Oklahoma City, where Epic Charter Schools leases 40,000 square feet for administrative use. (Photo by Whitney Bryen/Oklahoma Watch)
Oklahoma Watch and reporter Jennifer Palmer have filed a lawsuit against Epic Charter Schools, asking the court to order the release of emails under the Oklahoma Open Records Act. The news organization first requested the documents on July 26.
Specifically, the lawsuit named Epic Blended Learning Centers, Epic One-on-One Charter School, and Superintendent Bart Banfield as defendants. Epic is a public charter school funded by taxpayers.
Palmer requested the emails to and from Epic co-founder Ben Harris dated Jan. 1, 2019 through July 25, 2020 that used his Epic Charter Schools address. Email, like traditional written correspondence, is treated as a document under the state’s Open Records Act.
A Sayre man is suspected of killing a one-year-old child.
30-year-old Taylor Dale Lambert was arrested Friday on a felony warrant for suspicion of first-degree murder – child abuse, according to an Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation news release.
The Sayre Police Department asked OSBI on Nov. 14, 2020, to investigate the suspicious death of a one-year-old boy, who died on that day.
OSBI stated that the autopsy results showed the baby’s death was the result of a homicide, and that Lambert was the boyfriend of the child’s mother at the time of his death.
Sayre officers and Department of Wildlife Game Wardens arrested Lambert. He was booked into the Beckham County Sheriff’s Office.
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DERRICK JAMES | Staff photoJonathan Tubbs, right, is on trial for the February 2020 shooting death of his wife, Catrina Pope featured
By Derrick James STAFF WRITER May 11, 2021
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DERRICK JAMES | Staff photoJonathan Tubbs, right, is on trial for the February 2020 shooting death of his wife, Catrina Pope
A Pittsburg County jury of six men and six women heard testimony Tuesday in the trial against a McAlester man accused of fatally shooting his wife.
Jonathan James Tubbs, 40, was charged in February 2020 for first-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife, 37-year-old Catrina Pope.
District 18 First Assistant District Attorney Adam Scharn told the jury during opening statements that the evidence that will be provided over the course of the trial will support a guilty verdict.
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New bill to benefit law enforcement
New bill to benefit law enforcement By Dallas Payeton | May 11, 2021 at 6:55 PM CDT - Updated May 11 at 6:55 PM
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - Oklahoma law enforcement will soon be able to track people easier thanks to a new law.
Representative Rande Worthen of Lawton helped push Senate Bill 2-7-2 through the house.
It allows law enforcement to contact phone carriers like Sprint, Verizon, and many others in emergency situations to obtain the location of a cell phone to help track down an individual.
“A law enforcement agency will have to contact the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. They’ll be the source of that information. They’ll reach out to those carriers and that way they’ll be the central hub for locating that information, and then referring it back to the local law enforcement agency,” Worthen said.