2025 Policy Framework:

Stronger Communities for a Safer Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma District Attorneys Association champions policies that uphold justice, protect victims, and enhance public safety.

Our 2025 Policy Framework prioritizes safeguarding the vulnerable, enforcing stronger penalties for violent crimes, and securing our schools and communities. Key measures include:

  • Protecting Children & Domestic Violence Survivors – Strengthening protections and accountability measures.

  • Tougher Penalties for Violent Crimes – Enhancing sentencing for gang-related offenses, firearm crimes, and repeat domestic violence offenders.

  • Securing Schools & Neighborhoods – Improving laws to deter threats and gun violence in schools and public spaces.

We work closely with policymakers, law enforcement, and community stakeholders to ensure Oklahoma’s justice system remains strong, fair, and responsive to the needs of its citizens.

 Protecting Children & Domestic Violence Survivors

Protecting children and domestic violence survivors with stronger protections and accountability.

  • Protecting Every Child: Enhancing Department of Human Services & law enforcement referrals

  • No Time Limit on Protecting Children: Increasing the statute of limitations on failure to report child abuse.

  • Amplifying Voices of Domestic Violence Survivors: Allowing appropriate hearsay evidence in domestic violence cases.

Tougher Penalties, Trusted Expertise

Implementing stricter penalties for severe offenses. Leveraging experienced prosecutors to support justice efforts statewide.

  • Zero Tolerance for Gang Crimes: Reforming Oklahoma’s gang-enumerated offenses statute

  • Tougher Penalties for Domestic Violence Stalking & Harassment: Adding tougher penalties provide immediate protection for victims, sending a strong message against stalking and harassment.

  • Experience Where It Counts: Allowing for part-time rehiring of retired prosecutors to address critical staffing shortages and caseloads.

Securing Schools and Communities

Strengthening safety measures within schools and communities to create safe environments for families and students.

  • Protecting Homes and Lives from Violent Offenders: Adding discharging firearms into dwellings to Oklahoma’s “85 % crimes” category, ensuring offenders face serious time for endangering lives.

  • Keeping Schools & Students Safer from Threats and Gun Violence: Allowing Youthful Offender expansions in response to increased numbers of threats to schools & firearm crimes.

  • Closing Gaps in Student Safety Protections: Ensuring contracted security staff in schools meet the same protective standards as full-time personnel, creating safer environments.