Oklahoma Voice won an open records case we never should have had to fight. Here’s how it worked.
State agencies sometimes pick some weird hills to die on when it comes to public access, but the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation and its governing board take the cake. For over two years, they drummed up tens of thousands of dollars in legal bills fighting the release of a severance agreement that specifies the […]
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