Editorial Standards
Every legal statement on this site traces to the Oklahoma Constitution, a statute, a court, or the agency that administers the program. Discovery can come from anywhere. Publication comes from authority.
Source hierarchy
When sources conflict, the higher one wins:
- Oklahoma Constitution
- Oklahoma Statutes
- Oklahoma appellate courts
- Enacted and enrolled legislation
- The Oklahoma agency that administers the program
- County and municipal authorities
- Official Tribal Nation governments
- Federal agencies and federal law
- University extension material, for explanatory context only
Journalism, commercial legal sites, law-firm articles and AI summaries are research leads. We use them to find the law. We never cite them as the law.
What we will not do
- Publish a future-effective statute as though it is already in force.
- State a rule from a press release or fiscal summary when enrolled text exists.
- Invent a government link, or leave a placeholder URL in a published page.
- Publish an officeholder’s name we have not independently reconfirmed.
- Quietly reconcile a conflict between two sources. We flag it instead.
Enrolled text, not summaries
Legislation is read from the enrolled version, the text passed by both chambers. Bill summaries and staff fiscal analyses describe versions that may not have survived amendment. We have already seen a 2026 measure whose committee substitute contained provisions absent from the final law.
Dates
Every substantive page carries a Last reviewed date, and it moves when the page’s substance changes. A stale review date on a changed page is worse than no date at all, because it claims a freshness that is not there.
When we are unsure
We leave it out. A missing page costs a reader a search. A confidently wrong page costs them a deadline, a fee, or a right.
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