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The Cleveland County Health Department has violated the Oklahoma Open Records Act, according to state and federal Freedom of Information experts. Health department officials waited for approval from the department’s attorneys before giving The Daily requested health code violation records, which violates Oklahoma’s Open Records Act section 24 A.5. As well, The Daily was not permitted to electronically reproduce hard copies of the health inspection reports, which violates the opinion of former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson.
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The Daily eventually acquired the records after paying copies of the inspection reports, Katherine Cintron, ad$53 for 212 pages used for a follow-up article about health ministrative technician for the Cleveland County Health code violations found in Campus Corner establishments. Department wrote, in an email dated Aug. 15: “I’m afraid Joey Senat, an Oklahoma State University journal- not. Current policy states that the procedure we followed ism professor and former Freedom of this time is the procedure that we must The agency violated Information Oklahoma president, said follow each time.” in these instances, the Cleveland County Inspection reports are kept in an elecOklahoma’s Open Health Department is violating the tronic database, said Keith Reed, regionRecords Act section original intent of the Oklahoma Open al director of Cleveland and McClain Records Act. County Health Departments. The re24 A.5 Freedom of Information Oklahoma ports are entered into the database, is a statewide organization actively supporting individuals which can be publicly accessed through the department’s and organizations working to acquire open records and pro- website. The database does not include scanned copies of vide access to open meetings. the inspection report, nor is it standard practice for the department to scan the inspection reports electronically.
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Students brave long lines to purchase their books for the fall semester.
The first weeks of school pack the OU Bookstore with thousands of students looking for their course materials MIKE BRESTOVANSKY Assistant News Editor @BrestovanskyM
Students and their families dart between the shelves, as lanyard-wearing staffers usher them onward. During the early weeks of class, the OU Bookstore maintains a delicate balance between manic efficiency and outright chaos. The madness begins when the incoming freshmen move into their residence halls. However, it is not until the Friday before classes that the store becomes truly hectic, store director Tina Wieden said. “It would be absolutely impossible to measure, but easily thousands of people come through here in a single day,” Wieden said. “Thousands and thousands.” O n We d n e s d ay a n d Thursday before school starts, students are still settling into their new homes, Wieden said. But on Friday,
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w h i l e t h e s t u d e n t s a re as high as 80 or 90. Wieden spending time at their orien- and those students have tation events, a lot of parents been working at the bookcome in to pick up their chil- store from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. dren’s books. At first That ’s not to glance, the mention the bookstore reupperclassmen sembles a who try to buy chaotic zoo books. of Sooners, To cope with but this year this massive the bookIt would be influx of shopstore seems absolutely pers — which to be running continues until impossible to s m o o t h l y — weeks after least some measure, but at classes start — Sooners think the Bookstore easily thousands so. hires students of people come “It could just to tempobe because I’m rary positions. through here in used to it, but it These workers a single day.” definitely feels manage invenfaster,” said , TINA WIEDEN, tory, guide cuscomputer engiBOOKSTORE DIRECTOR tomers, work neering junior. registers and “Sometimes everything in between. I need to come back a few Wieden said she’s hired days later because a book over 50 temporary workers isn’t here, but not this time.” this fall, but mentioned that Wieden said the bookstore the number could have been has made improvements to
its efficiency this fall. This is partly a result of more students ordering their books online before school, which saves bookstore workers the hassle of tracking down limited copies. “Our goal is for people to only have to come in once before classes begin instead of buying a few before class and waiting a week for the others to be delivered,” Wieden said. As the bookstore machine winds down a few weeks after school starts, most of the hired temporary employees will leave the bookstore, but many of them will stay through the fall and winter — just in time for the store to spring back into frenetic motion as students return their books.
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A group of physics and astronomy students met with Rep. Tom Cole Tuesday evening to demonstrate the importance of science funding at universities. The students, researchers in the OU Physics and Astronomy Department, met at 4 p.m. in the Nielsen Hall’s atrium to talk about research they conduct, including super novi, semi-conductors, rubidium and unformed planets. Evan Rich, an astrophysics graduate student, said he and his fellow researchers wanted to enthusiastically represent science research and show Cole how important science funding is to university programs and students. Cole has supported science education in the past, said Shayne Cairns, a graduate student studying condensed matter physics. A student since 2008, Cairns said he has seen research funding dwindle since “We’ve been able to around 2010. C a i r n s s a i d O U ’ s weather the storm.” Physics and Astronomy SHAYNE CAIRNS, Department is surviving financially, though pro- CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT grams at other universities have failed. “We’ve been able to weather the storm,” Cairns said. However, he said funding is still crucial. Grants allow graduate students and faculty to produce better research faster. This brings more prestige back to the OU community, Cairns said. Brent McCoy, a graduate student studying high energy particle physics, said the research of his field is almost exclusively funded by national grants. McCoy said that he and the other OU graduate students who spoke to Cole represent all students who benefit from research funding. “We’re the faces of science,” McCoy said. McCoy said members of the OU Physics and Astronomy Department are conducting important research, which makes funding even more important to research programs. “We’re on the cutting edge of discovery,” McCoy said. In addition to talking with the group of students, Cole toured the research laboratories of Michael Santos, professor of condensed matter physics, and James Shaffer, professor of atomic, molecular and optical physics. Santos said the meeting with Cole was largely planned by Sara Barber, a graduate research assistant for the department.
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Voters who wish to request a mail-in absentee ballot for the Aug. 26 runoff election have until this evening to do so. Requests for absentee ballots must arrive at the Cleveland County Election Board office by 5 p.m. today in order to be accepted, according to a press release. Applications for the ballots can be found at the Cleveland County Election Board’s website. This year, absentee voters will be able to track their mail in ballots online using the state of Oklahoma’s online voting tool, said Anette Pretty, assistant secretary for the Cleveland County Election Board. If voters provide their name and date of birth, they will be able to see when their absentee ballot arrives at the election board office. They can also view general information about the election, according to the election board website. Absentee voters have another option in addition to requesting a mail in ballot, Pretty said. Voters can come in person and vote at the election board office or at the district’s remote location at the Moore Norman Technology Center South Penn Campus in Oklahoma City. The offices will be open 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Pretty said that the remote location, which opened in June, is a new option this year. The state allowed districts with over 100,000 people to open remote locations for early voting. The additional location will make voting early easier for
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Intramural Sports Showcase will display activity options for students For students interested in playing intramural sports, an Intramural Sports Showcase is being held every Monday through Thursday until Aug. 28 on the WalkerAdams Mall. This is the first time OU Fitness and Recreation has held the event, which introduces students to intramural basketball, dodgeball, wiffle ball, soccer and flag football, said Delaney Finn, a student who works for Fitness and Recreation. The showcase began on Aug. 16 and will continue through Aug. 28. The event is either held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. or from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., according to OU Fitness and Recreation’s website. In the past, there has only been one Saturday event to introduce students to intramurals, Finn said. This year the event was expanded to get more freshmen interested in the sports and meet like-minded people. “This year we wanted [freshmen] to find their way through intramurals,” Finn said. The focus on freshmen could help the intramural program in the future as freshmen who join early are more likely to play intramural sports when they get older, intramural coordinator Jonathan Dewhirst said. Jesse Pound, News Reporter
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HEALTH: Cleveland County agency responds Continued from page 1 The department’s policy is to decline requests for inspection reports to be reproduced electronically, Reed said. “It is much quicker, and therefore less strain on staff time, for us to reproduce paper copies from paper copies,” Reed said. Oklahoma’s Open Records Act section 24 A.5 statute cites, “All records of public bodies and public officials shall be open to any person for inspection, copying, or mechanical reproduction during regular business hours.” Senat cited a previous ruling, saying, “Nowhere in the act does the law prohibit requesters of records from making copies of such records themselves, nor does it require that copies of the requested documents be made by an employee of a public body.” Agencies have previously tried to block people from making their own copies because the agencies are trying to make money from the requests, said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, in a phone interview. “The law says that you have the right to inspect them, and if during the process of inspecting them you have a device in your hand that can make copies, then you’re not causing any harm,” LoMonte said. Reed eventually wrote in an Aug. 15 email that The Daily could bring its own equipment to reproduce future inspection reports electronically “as long as it does not disrupt our business operations.”
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In emails dated Aug. 13 and 15, Katherine Cintron, administrative technician for the Cleveland County Health Department, wrote: “We found out late yesterday afternoon that there is a new requirement that requests be approved by legal — a formality, but still a requirement.” The department’s procedures of asking an attorney to approve record requests appears to violate the Open Records Act, Senat said. Senat cited an opinion from Edmondson, stating state agencies “may not make rules, policy or procedures that conflict with the Open Records Act.” The public is entitled to walk in,
Reed defended the department’s protocols for handling open record IN DEPTH requests. Cleveland County “The process for running requests Health Department through our legal division is not intended for legal review and approval, Open Records Violation although an unusual request might + The Daily requested to make necessitate a legal opinion. It is simply its own electronic copies of that we track all requests to ensure full health inspection reports from compliance,” Reed said. the Cleveland County Health “The misunderstanding regarding Department. the nature of OSDH’s legal involvement is my fault. I was simply remind+ Katherine Cintron, ing staff that we had to go through administrative technician for the Cleveland County Health legal, and that was taken to mean for Department, declined in an ‘approval’ instead of to log it in and asemail dated Aug. 15. sign a tracking number,” Reed said. Reed declined to answer to whether + Oklahoma’s Open Records Act citizens could copy the most recent resection 24 A.5 statute cites, port for a particular restaurant imme“All records of public bodies and diately on site. public officials shall be open Reed also declined to answer whethto any person for inspection, er the department would provide a recopying, or mechanical reproduction during regular fund of $53 for declining that The Daily business hours.” reproduce inspection reports on-site electronically. For more information on Oklahoma’s Open Records Act visit Freedom of Information Oklahoma request records and receive them with- at www.foioklahoma.org or follow on out approval by an agency attorney, Twitter @FOIOklahoma. Senat said. Senat cited a 2005 police training video, where Edmondson said people Joey Stipek joey.stipek@gmail.com working in public bodies should have a working familiarity with the Open Records Act and be able to respond to citizen inquiries for records. “And that would mean, in most instances, if not all instances, they should not have to ask someone else for permission or authority,” Edmondson said at the training.
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Records requests laws must be met Our View: Public officials need to respect the
freedom of access granted by the Oklahoma Open Records Act and honor their duty to fulfill such requests.
own copies of records, according to Daily reports. Student journalists have every right to request records without undue obstruction of the requests. Sadly, we deal with violations of the Open Records Act often at The Daily but that doesn’t mean we’re going to stop making requests. The public information garnered from such requests helps us inform you, our fellow students, and we will never be deterred from that pursuit.
Freedom of Information laws are intended to allow the public access to records they have rights to review and posses. Additionally, the laws encourage bureaucratic transparency and accountability. These laws exist to ensure freedom of access Mary Fallin complies with open records request to records and meetings that are public information. Naturally, we become suspicious when public to release emails – sort of Nearly two years ago, the Oklahoma ACLU filed officials try to skirt Freedom of Information laws a lawsuit on behalf of The Lost Ogle, an Oklahoma and obscure requests. City news and entertainment blog, requesting We take violations of the Open Records Act seriemails the governor had kept secret. After months ously and the law does too. Sadly, the law is rareof litigation and stalling, Fallin finally released the ly enforced. In the eyes of the law violating the emails with mere days left before the court ordered Oklahoma Open Records Act is a misdemeanor carrying a possible one-year jail sentence and $500 due date. The timing of the release seems more like a piece of political strategy than compliance with a fine — nearly the exact same sentence people arsimple open records request. rested for marijuana possession receive. While And Fallin is no first-time offender of the people are arrested all the time for smoking Open Records Act. In fact, for the second pot, Freedom of Information violators are The Our View almost never punished for their crime. is the majority year in a row the statewide organization Freedom of Information Oklahoma has Unfortunately, The Daily and many opinion of named Fallin’s records policies deserving others face violations of Freedom of The Daily’s eight-member of its “Black Hole” recognition for “damInformation laws in Oklahoma all too editorial board aging access to records that should be often. Several high-profile instances of easily available to the public.” Denied and Freedom of Information violations have obscured records requests have come to be exoccurred recently in the state, from the govpected from Fallin’s office and it’s an injustice to all ernor to local courts. Oklahomans. It should not take a lawsuit and two years for a media organization to receive emails Cleveland County Health Department violates sent between state officials. The Open Records Daily staffer’s open records request Act is intended to help citizens hold governments The Daily recently made a simple open records request for health code violation information from accountable, and the governor’s resistance to the Cleveland County Health Department; howev- Freedom of Information laws should make us all er, actually obtaining the records was anything but weary of her office’s practices. simple. Daily editors were not granted the records until the health department attorneys approved the Cleveland County district attorney still won’t release Joe Mixon video request, which is a violation of Oklahoma’s Open OU freshman running back Joe Mixon has been Records Act section 24 A.5, according to Daily recharged, booked, arraigned and released for the ports. Furthermore, The Daily was prohibited from July 25 altercation involving OU junior Amelia electronically reproducing hard copies of the reMolitor. Yet Cleveland County District Attorney cord, a second violation the Open Records Act. Greg Mashburn still will not release the surveilThe Daily was instead forced to pay $53 for lance video that captured the whole event. Yes, the physical copies of the records, an imposition that video was sealed by Cleveland County Judge Steve shouldn’t have occurred had the health departStice Monday. However, that doesn’t mean the ment correctly complied with the Open Records Act. In fact, nowhere in the act does it prohibit peo- public shouldn’t be allowed to view the video. It clearly and undeniably violates the Open ple making records requests from producing their
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The Cleveland County Health Department denied records to Daily staffer until after legal approval.
Governor Mary Fallin refused to release emails, and her office often makes obtaining records difficult.
Even after an arraignment, the video of Joe Mixon’s altercation with an OU student has not been released.
Records Act, which makes public the “facts concerning the arrest, including the cause of arrest and the name of the arresting officer.” Mashburn contends that he will not release the video until the case is settled because he does not want prior viewing of the video to bias a jury. In this day and age anyone with a smart phone can learn the gory details of the case and a Norman jury pool will absolutely have read and heard other possibly biasing information about the case. This is just another example of Oklahoma public officials trying to preempt the freedom of access granted to U.S. citizens by Freedom of Information laws and quite frankly we’re tired of it. We’ve made our own open records request to obtain a copy of the surveillance video and hope to bring you the footage in the near future.
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“Protective” intervention or “preemptive” self-defense?
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fter three short years, the United States finds itself once again militarily involved in Iraq. This time, as opposed to regime change, our goals seem more modest: to rescue thousands of Iraqi civilians who were stranded on a mountaintop without access to food or water, and to prevent ISIS forces from threatening the safety of American citizens living in the city of Erbil. The operations seem to have been successful so far as a humanitarian crisis has been averted (for now), and American citizens and interests in the region seem to be reasonably secure. Yet the public justification for the resort to force, as is frequently the case, does not cohere with the reports coming out of Iraq. On one hand, the Obama administration has framed the intervention in terms of “protection” — protecting the Yazidis stranded on the mountaintop, as well as protecting Americans residing in the city of Erbil. On the other hand, despite having largely achieved these goals, the air campaign has intensified and now resembles a far more proactive military campaign aimed at weakening and rolling back the gains of ISIS. Most recently, the U.S. campaign has given the Kurdish and Iraqi fighters a significant boost, allowing them to retake the major dam outside the city of Mosul that ISIS seized some weeks ago. It is no coincidence that the Obama administration has focused its justification for the campaign on the politics of protection. The notion of the “Responsibility to Protect” (or R2P) has become a fashionable idea in the past decade — especially at the United Nations — as a way to obligate states to take decisive action, including military force, to protect people in other countries who are in danger of being massacred. Likewise, the protection of one’s own citizens abroad is one of the oldest and most broadly-accepted bases for resorting to military force under international law. But this intervention is at least as much geopolitical as it is humanitarian or “protective.” And while there may indeed be convincing grounds for more directly engaging ISIS and putting a halt to their alarming military gains in
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recent months, this is not what the American people were told we would be doing at the beginning of this campaign. Part of having to justify something like using military force is so that governments commit themselves to a certain course of action and to certain rules of conduct as part of their original decision to use force. In this case, by justifying the intervention as part of a mission to “protect,” the Obama administration committed itself to pursue this end only and only take those actions required to achieve this goal. Yet as we are seeing, U.S. military operations are going beyond the mission of “protecting.” Something similar happened the last time we went to
war in Iraq during the previous administration. What started as an act of “pre-emptive” self-defense morphed into one of the most ambitious and expensive state-building exercises in history. If the Obama administration wants to broaden our involvement in Iraq, then it needs to be straightforward with the American people about the reasons we are intervening there, lest we find ourselves embroiled in yet another open-ended conflict in Iraq for uncertain reasons.
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Doug Gaffin, Introduction to Zoology professor, begins teaching his 1:30 p.m. class in Dale Hall Tuesday, August 19.
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risp, cool morning LIFE & ARTS REPORTER air blows your hair back as you stroll around campus, giddy to find your new classes while completely — without even trying, of course — forgetting that summer flame you met just before sunset on a Bailey Chambers romantic beach. baychambs92@aol.com Right? Nope; there’s the buzzer. Crisp, cool August mornings are even more rare than a beach on campus. Take a deep breath and let it sink in that summer is over. This is simply a reminder that nobody digs a slob. Now, pull your clothes together because school is back in session. These little ideas will have you ignoring those calls from that guy you met. What was his name? Exactly, it isn’t important anymore. You can even have your hair blow back if you learn to walk exceptionally faster than the average cheetah in heels. Here are two looks to pull together for easy, early fall outfits.
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Oklahoma junior linebacker Frank Shannon’s court hearing is set for Wednesday after the university suspended him for one year from school and football for alleged sexual assault in January. Shannon took to court Ju n e 2 4 r e g a r d i n g t h e case and received a stay from district judge Tracy Schumacher. The stay allows Shannon to continue practicing with the team and remain enrolled in classes while Schumacher All we can control reviews the case. W e d n e s d a y ’s h e a r - are the players that are on the field — ing only relates to Schumacher’s stay. that’s all we ever University president have controlled. David Boren released a statement Aug. 11 on the Mike stoops, matter: Defensive coordinator “This process includes the Title IX Office inquiry, a hearing panel comprised of faculty and staff, and an appeal to the chief student affairs officer … The final decision of the internal disciplinary process was suspension of the student for one year.” Shannon’s punishment has not yet taken affect, and he still continues to practice. Shannon, who led the Sooners in tackles last season, did not practice with the first team on Monday. “The university is unable to enforce its process at this time. The university has and is taking every legal step possible to move this process forward. The university is currently seeking to enforce its decision so that it may be in compliance with federal law requiring responses by institutions to such matters in a timely manner,” Boren said in the statement. For some, the Title IX guidelines may be a bit hazy. Some think that it only applies to gender equity in regards to athletics between men and women. However, Title IX also deals with sexual misconduct. According to an outline received by The Oklahoman from the university’s Title IX
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Junior linebacker, Frank Shannon tackles a TCU player during last year’s home game on October 5, 2013.
office, when a complaint is received, the sexual misconduct office begins an investigation unrelated to any criminal proceedings. Charges were not filed, but under federal law, the university is still required to conduct its own investigation. A female Oklahoma student accused Shannon in January of sexually assaulting her at an off-campus apartment, according to a Title IX sexual misconduct allegation report obtained by The Oklahoman. In the report, the Cleveland County district attorney’s office declined to prosecute the case, saying that the alleged victim did not want to press charges. However, the university still began its own investigation. According to titleix.info, eight in 10 students experience some form of harassment during their school years, and more than 25 percent of them experience it often. In addition, girls are more likely than boys to experience sexual harassment (56 percent versus 40 percent).
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If Shannon is forced to sit out a year, the team has plenty of other options to turn to, including sophomore linebacker Jordan Evans. “I’m expecting Jordan to have a great year,” Stoops said. “He’s a guy that’s really come on, and he’s probably the biggest guy we’ve got. He had a really good spring and summer. He’s very natural in there, and we’re expecting Jordan to really make a difference this year.” With or without Shannon, the Sooners will have to push on if they expect to be one of the best defenses in the nation this year. “It’s like anything; we coach the players that are there,” defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said. “It’s pretty much how it goes. All we can control are the players that are on the field — that’s all we ever have controlled.” Carson Williams carson.williams@ou.edu