Sheriff Stanley Glanz News

Oklahoma’s Tulsa County to Pay Ex-Deputy $138K in Wrongful Termination Suit

Tulsa County has agreed to pay nearly $138,000 to a former sheriff’s deputy to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit that claimed he and others were ousted in fallout from the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man in 2015. County …

Trial Over Oklahoma Jail Inmate’s Death Ends in $10M Jury Verdict

An attorney for the estate of a man who was naked and paralyzed when he died in a cell in the Tulsa County (Oklahoma) Jail’s medical unit hailed a jury’s $10.25 million verdict in a federal civil rights trial. The …

Refiled Suits in Oklahoma Allege Excessive Force by Ex-Reserve Deputy

Lawsuits have been refiled that allege a former Tulsa County volunteer sheriff’s deputy used excessive force when he fatally shot one man and used a stun gun on another. The lawsuits were refiled against Robert Bates, who has pleaded not …