Oklahoma Watch has filed a lawsuit against Oklahoma’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services over its decision to keep secret billions of dollars in applications for federal coronavirus relief funds.
Defamation lawsuits, or simply the threat of them, seem to be grabbing a lot of headlines these days. Even as Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against MyPillow proceeds, Smartmatic, yet another
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May 12, 2021
On behalf of Oklahoma Watch and one of its reporters, attorneys from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press are suing the state’s largest school system and its superintendent over their refusal to provide access to email records requested by the nonprofit news organization.
The May 11 lawsuit the first filed as part of the Reporters Committee’s Local Legal Initiative in Oklahoma, which launched last November centers on a state Open Records Act request Oklahoma Watch reporter Jennifer Palmer submitted to Epic Charter Schools last July seeking emails sent to and from the school system’s co-founder, Ben Harris.