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Commission advances two bills: subpoena power for oversight office and flexibility for children‑of‑incarcerated‑parents program
Summary
The commission approved language to seek subpoena authority for records and a narrowly tailored disclosure exception for explicit threats, and it advanced cleanup and expansion language to broaden mentoring options and remove an outdated per‑child payment cap for the children of incarcerated parents program.
The Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth voted to send two draft bills to the legislature after staff and commissioners discussed wording and operational concerns.
Marsha Johnson presented the first bill, which would give the Office charged with juvenile system oversight authority to subpoena records from facilities in the children and youth services system (currently the office can subpoena witnesses and hold hearings but lacks express record‑subpoena authority). The draft also included a narrowly framed disclosure carve‑out that would allow the office to disclose…
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