'So many problems': After reporting to FBI, John Chancey resigns as Horse Racing Commission director
Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission executive director John Chancey resigned following a Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2025, meeting at Remington Park.| NonDoc
Principal Chief David Hill signed an executive order Aug. 28 requiring the Muscogee Nation Citizenship Office to “not issue citizenship cards or any form of membership identification cards” to Freedmen applicants until the nation reviews and amends its laws and regulations to comply with a Muscogee Nation Supreme Court order. That court order, issued in […] The post Hill order means Freedmen unlikely to vote in 2025 Muscogee Nation elections appeared first on NonDoc.| NonDoc
The Muscogee National Council indefinitely postponed consideration of a resolution that would have sided with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in a dispute with the Cherokee Nation over land rights within the affirmed Cherokee Reservation. Sponsored by Muscogee Reps. Dode Barnett and Patrick Freeman Jr., the resolution would have called “upon the (U.S.) […] The post After Cherokee Nation, UKB chiefs speak, Muscogee Council shelves resolution about their dispute appeared first...| NonDoc
Despite a year’s worth of conversations about options to end its overcrowding issues, the Comanche County Detention Center still has more detainees than beds, a problem exacerbated by reforms passed this year by the Oklahoma Legislature that reduced the jail’s legal capacity from 283 people to 240. However, contracts with other counties have allowed officials […] The post Despite inspection progress, Comanche County still seeks ‘long-term solution’ for jail capacity appeared first o...| NonDoc
Nearly two months after the Department of Public Safety announced plans to shift “primary call responsibility” from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol to local police agencies along interstates in the state’s metro areas, Attorney General Gentner Drummond released an official opinion today that DPS has no authority to “abandon” any part of Oklahoma’s interstates. According to […] The post Drummond opinion wrecks OHP plan to transfer ‘primary’ call authority to metro police appeared...| NonDoc
(Editor’s note: This story includes graphic descriptions of a traffic stop and a photo showing blood on the road. The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals opinion, linked in the article below, includes several additional graphic photos that should be viewed with caution.) While a Wagoner County initiative petition failed to gather enough signatures to convene […] The post 10th Circuit: Wagoner County officers potentially liable in death of Jeffrey Krueger appeared first on NonDoc.| NonDoc
Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission executive director John Chancey resigned following a Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2025, meeting at Remington Park.| NonDoc
In Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America, Alec MacGillis notes that the city at the center of a circle containing the largest population within a one-day drive is Dayton, Ohio. You can kinda see that in the map above, which I discovered through Brilliant Maps. They got it from the highly precient Defining US […]| Doc Searls Weblog
Collaboration, empathy, social awareness, and relationship building are some of the same skills that power democracy.| Education Week
This resource provides a comparison of the experience of judicial independence across three nations - Australia, Poland and Afghanistan, examining the role of the constitution and the associated the impacts of constitutional changes on judicial discretion and power, and therefore the achievement of the Rule of Law.| Rule of Law Education Centre
The Constitutional Literacy Institute in Utah helps educators bring an appreciation for government to their classrooms — without controversy. “Nothing ...| EdSurge Articles
Many federal employees need only a little exposure to something besides the groupthink they’ve been fed since their childhood.| The American Mind
Oklahoma County's new jail funding package is close to being considered for public review, and a vote could be called for early next year.| NonDoc
Oklahoma County District Judge Heather Coyle recused herself from the pending murder trial of Richard Glossip on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.| NonDoc
In July 2025, Kay County Commissioner Shane Jones was indicted for the theft of Newkirk Public Schools board member Jeff Schieber's cattle.| NonDoc
The Edmond City Council approved plans for a UCO campus corner, Liberty Park and a new 7 Brew during its Monday, Aug. 11, 2025, meeting.| NonDoc
Oklahomans should support Puerto Rican sovereignty instead of statehood, writes a San Juan resident in response to a recent NonDoc commentary.| NonDoc
The American Civil Liberties Union sees interest spike in its student advocacy institute, while conservative groups have their own programs.| Education Week
Schools and teachers play a vital role in cultivating civic-minded individuals. They offer a unique opportunity to help students understand and discuss the shared values and democratic principles that bind our communities and nation together.| Rule of Law Education Centre
Libraries can support people developing and using LLMs by providing an alternative to LLMs| Librarian of Things
In this roundup, read about new funding to address spiking OKC water line breaks, Superintendent Ryan Walters' latest legal victory and more.| NonDoc
Black youth are frequently among the most civically engaged young people in the country, yet they are too often absent from conversations about civic excellence and receive too little civic education.| The Hechinger Report
The Muscogee Nation and City of Tulsa released an agreement to settle a jurisdictional lawsuit regarding the prosecution of tribal citizens.| NonDoc
Gov. Kevin Stitt and Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols are clashing over the Muscogee-Tulsa settlement agreement set to be revealed June 25, 2025.| NonDoc
An Edmond Walmart proposal was again denied by the planning commission June 17, 2025, after multiple years of litigation in Oklahoma courts| NonDoc
Find the latest updates in Stitt v. Drummond, controversial education cases and more in this legal roundup from June 2025.| NonDoc
A Muscogee Nation and the City of Tulsa settlement agreement over criminal jurisdiction is inching toward approval in June 2025.| NonDoc
On June 5, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court held chapters of Catholic Charities are religious entities eligible for tax-exempt status.| NonDoc
Jurors convicted Charles Bishop of obstruction June 11, 2025, for an odd 2023 incident in the Canadian County Sheriff's Office lobby.| NonDoc
Carl Hendrick wrote a Substack post titled The Humility of the Page: The Lost Ethics of Deep Reading (May 29, 2025). « There was a time, and not that long ago, when reading was seen not simply as an academic exercise or leisure activity, but as a moral act. To pick up a book was to willingly … Continue reading The Lost Ethics of Deep Reading| Articles of Interest
The Judicial Nominating Commission announced Donna Dirickson, Jon Parsley and Travis Jett as Oklahoma Supreme Court nominees March 12, 2025.| NonDoc
Either America will be guided by constitutionalism or by the historicist understandings of the revolutionary Left.| The American Mind
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Feb. 4, 2025, a state sex offender registry residency requirement for parks is constitutional retroactively.| NonDoc
Key messages: New finance commitments are meaningful progress, but funding targets must be seen as a floor, not a ceiling. Much more is needed to achieve justice and the practical resourcing of the…| Climate Civics
Amid rumors of employee unrest, OSBI Commission names deputy director Steven Carter interim director to succeed Aungela Spurlock.| NonDoc
The Rule of Law Education Centre’s informed project is unique. It is an opportunity for teachers and students to develop understanding, skills, and confidence to protect our democratic values and freedoms effectively. It gives students a framework to debate and wrestle with current issues to safeguard our freedoms and hold those in power to account.| Rule of Law Education Centre
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The New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) has released the final version of the Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) Syllabus for students in years K-6 that is scheduled for full implementation and teaching by 2027.| Rule of Law Education Centre
Down-ballot races, not just the presidential one, offer robust learning opportunities from math to maps.| Education Week
Election Day is almost here! This week I took my three and four year olds with me to early vote. They had SO MANY questions. Maybe your kids do too. Here are five Election Day activities to help your kids understand and get excited about exercising our most important right as U.S. citizens! Hold a Family Election Kids love to vote. And the great news is you can put pretty much anything up for a vote! Pizza or tacos? Vote on it! Cookies or brownies? Vote on it! We added some simple ideas onto ...| THE AMERICAN MOMS
April 19 marked the anniversary of the American Revolution – specifically, the Battle of Lexington and Concord. The American Declaration of Independence justifies the rebellion by listing “a long train of abuses and usurpations [revealing] a design to reduce [the colonists] under absolute Despotism.” It explains the nature of these various abuses and usurpations as […]| Starting Points
The specific key elements for formalised Civics and Citizenship education in Australia were agreed upon and articulated in 2012 by the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) (on behalf of all the States and Territories in Australia). The Statement of Learning for Civics and Citizenship provided a description of ‘knowledge, skills, understandings and capacities that all student in Australia should have the opportunity to learn and develop in the Civics and Citizens...| Rule of Law Education Centre
