tomorrow good to have you here. so, if you got in your car, an you drove out of oklahoma city you drove southeast, out o oklahoma city, about fou hours. before you left oklahoma state limits, before you crossed the border, the last placed yo would hit is mccurtain county, oklahoma it s right in the farthest south corner of the great stat of oklahoma, it border arkansas to the east, and texa to the south and in mccurtain county, i that part of oklahoma. the local newspaper is calle the mccurtain gazette news and the mccurtain gazette news is a print only newspaper, doesn t have a website if you want to read th mccurtain gazette news reporting, it s like the googl days you have to wait each week until the hard copy of the paper hits your doorstep, an then you can see what they hav reported on. like all good local news outlets, online or in print, o both the staff at the mccurtain gazette news, make it thei business to make sure they are did legitimately covering th local govern
he decided to leave a voic activated recorder, inside the room where the commissio meets. and the reason he did that, is because he suspected, that the county commission, in mccurtai county, was continuing to do county business, after the meeting had ended. and that would ve been i violation of the states open meeting act. his publisher for the loca paper essentially thought that the commission was trying to d business affecting the peopl of the county without loopin the public in what they were doing and that is somethin that s just not allowed unde state law. so this publisher, he made sur that what he was doing was o the open up, when he left that recorder he told the associate press, i talked on two different occasions with our attorneys, to make sure wasn t doing anything illegal. but he left the recorde there, it s voice-activated. and then he went back an collected it and when he collected that reporter, he discovered that there is a lot more going on