The Robert M. Greer Center was facing over $500,000 in fines for failing to protect clients from threats to their safety. But the state decided to instead hire a consulting company to suggest changes at the facility.
The Multi-County Grand Jury finds “grossly negligent handling of federal grant money” that was “easily preventable” under Gov. Kevin Stitt.
State agencies and universities that don’t comply with an order from Gov. Kevin Stitt to eliminate certain diversity programs risk losing state funding.
State lawmakers answer questions at The Frontier’s Oklahoma City forum.
The governor cited a need for smaller government last year when he disbanded the mostly unfunded council made up primarily of volunteers and state employees. The group had worked to coordinate funding and services between providers as the number of unsheltered Oklahomans continues to grow.
Oklahoma Human Services will no longer operate an office that investigates mistreatment of people in state care. Lawmakers sent the bill to Stitt’s desk after reports of repeated abuse at a center for people with developmental disabilities.
There were complaints of abuse dating back more than two years before arrests of Greer Center staffers. Some staff provided false information about abuse or made reports about injuries only after they had healed, one former employee testified.
U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin argues that the cost of land buyouts could be passed on to many Native American, rural and poor Grand River Dam Authority ratepayers and that the federal government should pay instead.
