OKLAHOMA CITY - Today, the Office of the Oklahoma Attorney General sent a letter to Oklahoma State Representative Anthony Moore encouraging him to pass legislation making clear that school restrooms should be designated based on biological sex for privacy and safety purposes.
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April 27, 2022
April 27, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General O’Connor today released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta case.
"Today, the State of Oklahoma asked the U.S. Supreme Court to confirm that the State has the authority to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in eastern Oklahoma, which is now the expanded Indian country under the McGirt decision. The State has been prosecuting such criminals since 1907.
April 20, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General John O’Connor and 15 other state attorneys general are demanding President Joe Biden stop federal attempts to impose excessive regulations that increase Americans’ energy costs.
“Americans are paying more at the pump and in the grocery store because Biden is crippling our oil and gas production and transportation. On top of that, he is destroying America’s energy independence,” said Attorney General O’Connor. “These decisions are hurting our families.”
April 19, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General John O’Connor is leading 15 other state attorneys general in opposition to the Biden Administration’s new regulatory proposal regarding federal grants for public charter schools.
April 15, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor is joining a coalition of 21 states seeking to stop President Biden’s rescission of Title 42 in Arizona v. CDC. The original complaint was filed last week. The coalition is asking the court to move swiftly to protect Arizona and the other plaintiff states from the inevitable massive increase of illegal border crossings if Title 42 is rescinded on May 23rd.
April 12, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - On April 7, 2022, Betty Kristen Corrine Meadows of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, pled guilty before Osage County District Judge Stuart Tate and was sentenced to serve 30 days in the Osage County Jail, ordered to surrender her nurse aide certification, hold no employment involving care of elderly or vulnerable adults while on probation, pay a Five Hundred Dollar ($500.00) court fund assessment, Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) to the Victim Compensation Fund, and the costs of the action. The Court placed Meadows on probation for four years following her jail time.
April 8, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General John O’Connor has charged a contractor in Oklahoma County who received thousands of dollars from Oklahomans in several counties in exchange for construction projects he never completed.
Michael Hanson, 42, is charged with nine counts of Embezzlement and one count of Pattern of Criminal Offense.
April 6, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General John O’Connor has joined a coalition of 15 state attorneys general calling on the Biden Administration to halt its efforts to promote men competing with women in high school and college sports. President Biden’s Department of Education is seeking to rewrite federal Title IX rules to, among other problematic changes, expand the term sex to include gender identity.
April 5, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor applauds the decision by a federal district judge to uphold most of Oklahoma’s Patient’s Right to Pharmacy Choice Act. Passed by the Legislature in 2019, this consumer protection Act protects Oklahomans’ access to pharmacy providers. The Act also protects Oklahoma pharmacies from certain self-dealing and self-serving practices of pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) that can harm consumers and put rural and independent pharmacies out of business.
March 29, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY - Attorney General John O’Connor is joining 20 other states, led by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, in a multistate action against President Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continued use of the unlawful mask mandate on public transportation. Attorney General O’Connor argues that the mandate exceeds the authority of Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Biden administration continues to use a failed interpretation of a quarantine statute—that has been ruled against in court several times—to authorize the CDC’s rule.