The Frontier
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The city pays a private company more than $696,000 a year for the cameras, which read license plates and can track cars.
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State education grant writers said they quit in frustration after a lack of support. Walters has vowed in the past not to pursue grants that don’t align with “Oklahoma values.”
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Authorities jailed Michael James Hoeppner under suspicion of drunk driving in March 2019. He wasn’t intoxicated but suffering from a treatable illness.
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Walters, the state Superintendent of Public Instruction, has been called Oklahoma’s “culture-warrior-in-chief” as he flirted with groups like Moms for Liberty and Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik. And in Tulsa, he’d found his biggest battleground.
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Hate crime investigations based on gender and sexual orientation are complicated by a patchwork of state and federal laws. There’s no required training for police.