OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond sent State Superintendent Ryan Walters a very strongly-worded letter last month demanding Walters and the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) comply with the Open Records Act, after his officer received dozens of complaints. Walters never responded.
In the July 16 letter from Drummond to Walters, obtained by News 4, Drummond told Walters his office had received an “alarming number of complaints” about issues with open records requests members of the public and media had made with OSDE.
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Drummond listed 42 complaints his office had received from different media outlets for dating back to January of last year they say have gone “unanswered” by OSDE.
Drummond wrote his office had tried numerous times to work with Walters and OSDE on the complaints, but that OSDE “inconceivably” ignored his office’s communications.