Posted on March 2, 2013 in Uncategorized
A police officer accused of using excessive force faces termination by the police department. According to the department, police officer Charles Proctor disgraced the department and should be fired for striking Jermaine Lacey with a baton, choking him and slamming his head into the bumper of a squad car: Video of the incident . …. read more…
Posted on March 2, 2013 in Uncategorized
A corporation operating day-care facilities has agreed to settle a pregnancy discrimination claim filed by a pregnant employee: The EEOC had alleged that Adventures in Learning discriminated against a pregnant employee at one of its locations and forced her to quit when it refused to allow her to work after her fourth month of pregnancy…. read more…
Posted on March 1, 2013 in Uncategorized
A Tenessee man has filed an excessive force complaint following an altercation with officers: “We counted at least 200 blows, 200 individual blows,” says Tatum’s attorney, Robin Flores. “They were dragging him by his broken leg.” The incident was caught on tape which the victim’s attorney has since produced for the public: Video available here…. read more…
Posted on February 27, 2013 in Uncategorized
On Monday, February 25, 2013, the U.S. Senate confirmed Judge Robert Bacharach for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The Senate confirmed Judge Bacharach 93-0 after Republicans delayed a vote on his confirmation for 263 days. Bacharach, 53, has been a U.S. magistrate judge since 1999 for the Western… read more…
Posted on February 17, 2013 in Uncategorized
An apparent “suicide by cop” scenario has unfolded in South Tulsa. An officer with the Tulsa Police Department killed a hispanic man on February 16 following a stand-off that lasted several hours. According to reports, police officers converged on an apartment near the 7100 block of South Granite responding to a call from the man’s… read more…
Posted on February 15, 2013 in Uncategorized
In a 7-2 opinion issued this week, the Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed that citizens have a state constitutional right against the use of excessive force inside jail facilities throughout the state. Prior to this week’s ruling, counties and public trust authorities that operate county jails had taken the position that no such right existed, and… read more…
Posted on February 5, 2013 in Uncategorized
HIV positive inmates in local jails and prisons are not a group that correctional facilities can continue to ignore. According to Centers for Disease Control reported that for the years from 1999 to 2006, the prevalence of confirmed AIDS among the prison population was between 2.7 and 4.8 times higher than in the general U.S. population. No small… read more…
Posted on January 30, 2013 in Uncategorized
A former pretrial detainee at the Payne County Detention Center claims that employees segregated him because he is HIV positive. In a federal complaint filed Wednesday, the detainee, identified as John Doe, claims that he was initially placed in general population, but was suddenly removed by jailers shortly after his arrival and placed in the facility’s high security isolation… read more…
Posted on January 28, 2013 in Uncategorized
A man riding his motorcycle was killed Saturday night after striking the rear-end of a city -owned utility truck with his motorcycle. According to reports, the accident occurred just north of the intersection at 41st and Peoria when the truck turned northbound onto Peoria as the motorcycle passed through the intersection. Witnesses claimed that the… read more…
Posted on December 28, 2012 in Uncategorized
Investigators have revised the cause of a head-on car accident that killed Nita Roden on December 6, 2012. Officials initially believed that Roden caused the car accident by driving left of center and colliding with another car driven by Daniel Bryant. However, after reviewing details of the car accident, including the “black boxes” from within… read more…