Maddy Keyes
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University of Oklahoma alum. Investigative reporter @readfrontier.bsky.social | send tips to maddy@readfrontier.com
Who bought that ad? We’re following the money in Oklahoma elections. Outside groups that sometimes try to hide their financial backers are spending millions on political ads.
Who bought that ad? We’re following the money in Oklahoma elections
Outside groups that sometimes try to hide their financial backers are spending millions on political ads.
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The announcement comes after The Frontier uncovered seven deaths in three years at the jail, including a man detention officers left alone in a restraint device.
Tulsa mayor orders closure of city jail after Frontier investigation
Tulsa Mayor Monroe Nichols ordered the immediate closure of the Tulsa Municipal Jail after The Frontier's investigation into the death of Justin Benner.
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Benner groaned and begged “help me” as three detention officers wrestled him into the restraint device. At one point, a detention officer knelt on his back. Video obtained by @readfrontier.bsky.social shows Benner's arrest and death inside Tulsa's municipal jail.
Tulsa police took him to the city jail instead of a hospital. Video shows he was dead within an hour.
Justin Benner pleaded for help as detention officers wrestled him into a full-body restraint device and left him alone in a cell.
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Oklahoma County bail hearings don't meet constitutional standards. My latest for @readfrontier.bsky.social in collab w/ @kosuradio.bsky.social with contributions from @theappeal.org www.readfrontier.org/stories/just...
Justice in less than a minute? Oklahoma County bail hearings don’t meet constitutional standards, attorneys say.
Public defenders say judges routinely fail to consider whether defendants can afford bail, leaving poor and homeless people jailed on low-level charges. Other counties have already faced civil rights ...
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Public defenders say judges routinely fail to consider whether defendants can afford bail, leaving poor and homeless people jailed on low-level charges. Other counties have already faced civil rights lawsuits.
Justice in less than a minute? Oklahoma County bail hearings don’t meet constitutional standards, attorneys say.
Public defenders say judges routinely fail to consider whether defendants can afford bail, leaving poor and homeless people jailed on low-level charges. Other counties have already faced civil rights ...
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An out-of-state anti-abortion group successfully lobbied to change Oklahoma law after it was rejected for public funding from a program that encourages women to keep their unplanned pregnancies.
Rejected for Oklahoma funding, an anti-abortion group helped rewrite state law
The Texas-based nonprofit Human Coalition lobbies for anti-abortion programs and gets millions of dollars in funding from other states.
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Regulators say the Ponca City carbon black plant failed to meet pollution limits, missed required equipment testing and violated a 2015 federal agreement to improve air quality.
After years of black dust complaints, Oklahoma cites Continental Carbon for 81 alleged violations
Regulators say the Ponca City carbon black plant failed to meet pollution limits, missed required equipment testing and violated a 2015 federal agreement to improve air quality.
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Prosecutors frequently oppose thousands of people for pretrial release, even though there’s an Oklahoma County program designed to help participants show up to court. Check out the full story in our latest collaboration with @readfrontier.bsky.social.
Oklahoma County has a program to help poor people get out of jail. Prosecutors rarely support it
Prosecutors frequently oppose thousands of people for pretrial release, even though there’s an Oklahoma County program designed to help participants show up to court.
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Supporters of a county pretrial release program say thousands of people who pose little public safety risk remain jailed because they can’t afford bail. Prosecutors frequently oppose release, even though the program is designed to help people show up to court.
Oklahoma County has a program to help poor people get out of jail. Prosecutors rarely support it.
Supporters of a county pretrial release program say thousands of people who pose little public safety risk remain jailed because they can't afford bail. Prosecutors frequently oppose release, even tho...
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An Oklahoma County program gets people charged with nonviolent crimes released from jail before trial if they can’t afford bail, but prosecutors try to block most defendants from participating. Latest @readfrontier.bsky.social collab w/ @kosuradio.bsky.social www.readfrontier.org/stories/okla...
Oklahoma County has a program to help poor people get out of jail. Prosecutors rarely support it.
Supporters of a county pretrial release program say thousands of people who pose little public safety risk remain jailed because they can't afford bail. Prosecutors frequently oppose release, even tho...
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Enid, Oklahoma's public water wells are right next oilfield waste injection sites, due to lax oversight by regulators. And it's not just Enid, @propublica.org + @readfrontier.bsky.social found 114 injection wells less than 1/4mile from a public water supply well www.readfrontier.org/stories/to-p...
To Protect Its Drinking Water, This City Has to Appeal to the Oil Regulators That Put It at Risk
Oklahoma restricts oil field wastewater injection within a half-mile of public water wells. Regulators have let companies do it anyway. But in the city of Enid, officials are pushing back against one ...
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We gathered cities’ confidentiality agreements with data center developers. Some require local leaders to keep secret even the fact that a nondisclosure agreement exists.
All the details on data center secrecy deals Oklahoma communities have signed
We gathered cities' confidentiality agreements with data center developers. Some require local leaders to keep secret even the fact that a nondisclosure agreement exists.
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WATCH: We asked Norman voters at St. Stephen's United Methodist Church whom they favored in Oklahoma's gubernatorial primary, the behavior they wanted to see from candidates if elected and their thoughts on State Question 832, which would have raised Oklahoma's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2029.
One contract required public officials to keep secret that a confidentiality agreement even existed. At least one agreement allows the companies to sue cities to enforce the terms of the deals, sometimes in other states.
How data center developers won secrecy pledges from Oklahoma officials
One contract required public officials to keep secret that a confidentiality agreement even existed. At least one agreement allows the companies to sue cities to enforce the terms of the deals, someti...
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NEW: Oklahoma officials across the state signed confidentiality deals with data center developers. Records obtained by @readfrontier.bsky.social show some agreements even barred officials from disclosing the existence of the NDAs themselves. READ MORE: www.readfrontier.org/stories/how-...
How data center developers won secrecy pledges from Oklahoma officials
One contract required public officials to keep secret that a confidentiality agreement even existed. At least one agreement allows the companies to sue cities to enforce the terms of the deals, someti...
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A Department of Mines recommendation would allow a company to open a new mining pit over a fragile aquifer, despite concerns from residents who say the project threatens a critical water source and undermines the intent of a state moratorium.
Oklahoma regulator recommends a disputed mine expansion over the Arbuckle-Simpson Aquifer
A Department of Mines recommendation would allow a company to open a new mining pit over a fragile aquifer, despite concerns from residents who say the project threatens a critical water source and un...
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Billions of gallons of toxic oil field wastewater are injected below Oklahoma each year. Some of it is spreading uncontrollably and blasting out of old wells. Our new film with @readfrontier.bsky.social exposes what regulators knew — and how they did little about the risks.
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Changes tied to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will strip Medicaid and SNAP eligibility from many immigrants with humanitarian protections, while Oklahoma nonprofits helping refugees face steep staffing and funding cuts.
Thousands of Oklahoma immigrants in line to lose food assistance and Medicaid coverage under federal eligibility changes
Changes tied to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will strip Medicaid and SNAP eligibility from many immigrants with humanitarian protections, while Oklahoma nonprofits helping refugees face steep st...
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The Frontier examined candidates’ claims about insurance rates, lawsuit reforms and the health of Oklahoma’s insurance market.
What’s true, false and uncertain in the Oklahoma insurance commissioner race
The Frontier examined candidates’ claims about insurance rates, lawsuit reforms and the health of Oklahoma’s insurance market.
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Did Gentner Drummond donate money to Joe Biden? Did Mike Mazzei support a bill to end the Electoral College? We checked the facts.
Sorting fact from fiction in Oklahoma’s Republican governor debate
Did Gentner Drummond donate money to Joe Biden? Did Mike Mazzei support a bill to end the Electoral College? We checked the facts.
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About half of all Oklahomans live within a mile of an oil and gas site. A new documentary from The Frontier and ProPublica exposes the failure of state regulators to protect residents from a massive underground pollution crisis.
Toxic Ground: Inside Oklahoma’s Massive Oil Field Wastewater Crisis
Watch how a legacy of oil drilling and regulatory failure destroyed one Oklahoma family’s dream home and contaminated another family’s drinking water.
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The Frontier is partnering with collaborators — including KOSU, Focus: Black Oklahoma, Tulsa Flyer, The Oklahoma Eagle, and La Semana — to answer your questions about voting.
What are your questions for The Frontier about voting?
The Frontier is partnering with collaborators — including KOSU, Focus: Black Oklahoma, Tulsa Flyer, The Oklahoma Eagle, and La Semana — to answer your questions about voting.
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Gov. Kevin Stitt’s operation to clear homeless encampments from state land has moved to Norman, but without an offer of funding to house displaced people.
State clears homeless camp in Norman but has offered no housing funds for displaced residents
The sweep displaced dozens and gave local shelters and other service providers little time to prepare.
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The sweep displaced dozens and gave local shelters and other service providers little time to prepare.
State clears homeless camp in Norman but has offered no housing funds for displaced residents
The sweep displaced dozens and gave local shelters and other service providers little time to prepare.
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@readfrontier.bsky.social Gov. Stitt’s operation to clear homeless encampments from state land has moved to Norman, but without an offer of funding to house displaced people. This comes after the state agreed to pay OKC up to $800k for housing and support for people displaced by Operation SAFE.
Join @readfrontier.bsky.social and @propublica.org TOMORROW at Circle Cinema in Tulsa for a FREE documentary screening and Q&A on Oklahoma's oilfield wastewater pollution problem. RSVP HERE: events.propublica.org/toxic-ground
Oklahoma’s resource hotlines will receive state funding this year for the first time in a decade after Gov. Kevin Stitt signed into law a measure creating the 211 Hotline Revolving Fund, but future funding remains uncertain.
Oklahoma’s 211 hotlines secure state funding
The hotlines have relied on private donations for years after an economic downturn led to budget cuts.
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More families and unaccompanied youth are experiencing homelessness in Oklahoma City now than at any other point in the past two decades, according to newly released figures. Latest for @readfrontier.bsky.social: www.readfrontier.org/stories/home...
Homelessness among families and youth reach new highs in Oklahoma City
New data shows overall homelessness dipped slightly for the first time since 2018, even as more families with children and unaccompanied youth fall into crisis.
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Jena Nelson and Trey Martin both think they can win in an area reshaped by redistricting and Republican control.
Two Democrats, one shot at flipping Oklahoma’s 5th District
Jena Nelson and Trey Martin both think they can win in an area reshaped by redistricting and Republican control.
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