Imagine living in a state where you can’t access basic police reports detailing what the heck officers were doing in your neighborhood or what caused a four-vehicle crash that shut down a local street for hours.
Seems a little out-of-touch with the American way, doesn’t it?
Yet that’s exactly what has happened in Oklahoma’s capital after Oklahoma City police administration exploited a perceived loophole in the state’s Open Records Act, a state law designed to protect the public’s inherent right to know what government bodies are doing and why…