We report on Oklahomans whose due process rights were violated, and we cover local news across the state. We have published since 2022.
Due process is the least dramatic guarantee in American law and the easiest to take without anyone noticing. It rarely fails all at once. It fails in a notice that was never sent, a hearing that was scheduled and never held, a filing that misstates the record, a deadline that ran while an agency sat on a file.
Any one of those looks clerical. Together they are how a system takes a child, a house, a license or years from a person without ever appearing to have decided anything.
Those are the cases we look for.
How We Work
The staff is small. That is a constraint and it is also the method. We take fewer stories and stay on them longer.
We work from documents. Dockets, filings, agency records, open records responses, recordings. A person’s account of what happened to them is where a story starts. It is not where a story ends. We ask for the paper, and where the paper does not exist, we say so in the story rather than writing around the gap.
What We Cover
- Criminal courts and law enforcement conduct
- Family courts, child support enforcement and child welfare
- State agencies and government transparency
- Native American sovereignty
- Local news across Oklahoma, including the meetings, dockets and budgets that no longer have a reporter in the room
How We Report
We work from primary documents and we name our sourcing in the story. If we get something wrong, we correct it on the story itself, dated and in the open, with the original error described rather than quietly overwritten.
If It Happened to You
Tell us what happened, when it happened, and what you have. Orders, transcripts, correspondence, denials. We cannot take every case and we will tell you plainly if we cannot take yours.
We do not publish a source’s identity without that source’s agreement.
Ownership
The Oklahoma Post is published by The Oklahoma Post LLC. We are independently owned. No political party, campaign, candidate, agency or advocacy organization holds an interest in this publication or has any role in what we publish.