Before I write anything else, I want to apologize for gratuitously using an A.I.-generated photo of an attractive couple running down the beach holding sealed “Open Records” envelopes. What can I say? Open records aren’t exactly the most exciting topic out there, and I have to get people to click on this boring subject somehow.
Anyway, it seems like some odd things are afoot with Oklahoma open records laws.
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Over the past couple of weeks, a pair of House committees advanced legislation that would stifle and restrict Oklahoma's open records law by allowing the Corporation Commission, ABLE Commission, and OBN to withhold certain documents related to investigations and litigation from open records requests.