After a push from big retailers and law enforcement, a new Oklahoma law will give t he state Attorney General the power to ...

The voter-led reforms made many non-violent crimes misdemeanors, in an effort to shrink Oklahoma’s high prison population. But the 2024 bill didn’t make it out of committee.

A new law will give the Oklahoma Attorney General powers to prosecute organized retail crime, but a provision that would have made it easier for shoplifters to pick up felony charges was removed from ...

Religious freedom was among the most important of those principles.Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and 18th-century ...

A previous version of the legislation in 2024 would have rolled back criminal justice reforms Oklahoma voters approved in 2016 as part of State Question 780. The voter-led reforms made many ...

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The budget bill that passed Congress signals that federal commitment to addressing the U.S. mental health crisis is ...