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A gate is seen outside of one of the inmate housing units at Joseph Harp Correctional Center in Lexington.
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State Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, has spent much of the summer sounding the alarm over Oklahomaâs prison understaffing problem.
On June 18 he asked Gov. Kevin Stitt to declare a state of emergency, arguing that low staffing numbers have elevated the risk of riots and violence in state prisons. Heâs appeared on weekly Facebook Live broadcasts with Bobby Cleveland, director of the Oklahoma Corrections Professionals group, to provide updates on what heâs hearing from prison workers.
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After advancing steadily in their respective legislatures the
first few months of 2021, the Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act
has seemingly died, and the Washington Privacy Act may run into
similar roadblocks it faced in prior years.
After passing the Oklahoma House in early March, the Oklahoma
bill grinded to a halt the first week of April after Oklahoma
Senate Majority Leader refused to allow the bill to have a hearing,
as confirmed in tweets and in a press conference by one of the bill s
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Dick Pryor: This is Capit0l Insider, your weekly look inside Oklahoma politics, policy and government. I m Dick Pryor with eCapitol news director, Shawn Ashley. Our guest this week is State Representative Cyndi Munson, Democrat from District 85 in Oklahoma City. Representative Munson is House Minority Caucus chair. And thank you for joining us.
State Rep. Cyndi Munson: Thank you for having me.
Dick Pryor: There s just a little over a month left in the legislative session. How would you rate it so far?
State Rep. Cyndi Munson: (laughs) Good to know that there s only a month left. It feels like it s been a lot longer than that - this legislative session. I have mixed feelings about this session. We kind of talk about how every session feels like the most stressful and the worst that we ve ever experienced. And I ll say what this session I think what s been most unique is trying to govern and do our business while still living through a pandemic. And then the topics that