Documents filed under seal by a trial court were not filed in accordance with the requirements of the Open Records Act. The court wrote "Compliance with the Open Records Act is mandatory in all cases."

Frontier sought jail recordings after a person died in the jail's care. Jail unsuccessfully fought release of recordings. Court did not decide issue on whether jail trust is a "law enforcement agency" under ORA. Court did hold jail video and internal investigative records are "records" under ORA.

911 Trust held public records that were also held by the Court Clerk and an online website. 911 Trust would not provide records when requested by the public and instead referred to the other 2 locations for the records. Court held Trust was violating the ORA in doing do.

Lawsuit against Sheriffs Office was dismissed by the trial court after attorney failed to appear at motion to dismiss hearing. Wagoner County was trying to aruge that turning over records after lawsuit was filed rendered the case moot. Case dismissed before it could reach decision on that argument.

An agreed-to protective order sealing records from the public view was held invalid because the court did not comply with the ORA.

A public body may, but is not required to, e-mail requested documents to the requesting party.

If confidentiality is not required by statute, the court may seal a record or portion of a record only if a compelling privacy interest exists, which outweighs the public's interest in the record.

Government has some discretion to release personnel files, but that discretion is not unlimited - contrary to what Owasso argued here. The Court has the final say on if personnel files should be released by balancing the public's right to know v. the government's reason for the denial.

County Clerk is not required to provide a company with an electronic copy of the county land records, when the copies will be used for commercial purposes.

Public body may not circumvent ORA by placing material solely in the custody of a non-public body or person. City Council of a town is the proper authority to make a decision on whether or not to turn over requested records.

The ORA must be read to allow copying, as well as inspection of records of an arrest, which includes the facts concerning an arrest - unless an exception applies. The government bears the burden of proof. The term “arrest” must be defined liberally in favor of access to public records.

Certain documents are to be removed from online filing at Court Clerk's offices due to personal identifier numbers and information.

Sealing of court records is prohibited absent compelling reasons. NOTE: This case has been removed from the public record.

2nd of 3 cases between these Parties. 2nd in a row where Judge Condren ruled for Claremore and was reversed on appeal. This case deals with attorney fees paid by a City to a private law firm in defense of the 1st case. Records held by a private law firm are not the same as records held by a City.