Sheriff's Office Launches Probe After Reports Of Naked Women Seen On Official's Tv At Oklahoma Board Of Education Meeting

A sheriff's agency successful Oklahoma is investigating an incident that occurred during a authorities Board of Education gathering past week that reportedly progressive images of naked women connected nan authorities schools superintendent's agency television.

The images were seen during nan board’s executive session, held successful Superintendent Ryan Walters’ office, The Oklahoman reported, citing members Ryan Deatherage and Becky Carson who attended nan meeting.

NBC News has not confirmed nan accounts of Deatherage and Carson, who were some nominated by Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican.

The Oklahoma County Sheriff's Office launched a probe into nan incident, according to Aaron Brilbeck, nationalist accusation serviceman for nan sheriff's office, aft a petition from nan agency that oversees quality resources matters for nan authorities government.

Senate Pro Temp Lonnie Paxton and authorities Sen. Adam Pugh, some Republicans, had said successful a associated news release Friday that nan Office of Management and Enterprise Services, which oversees HR matters, was starring an enquiry into nan incident and was moving done due channels to initiate an investigation.

“This is simply a bizarre and troubling business that raises superior questions astir nan events and what took spot during yesterday’s executive convention astatine nan Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting,” Paxton said successful a connection astir nan Board of Education's gathering held connected Thursday.

Accounts shared by members of nan Board of Education, he added, "paint a strange, unsettling segment that demands clarity and transparency."

The Office of Management and Enterprise Services didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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A legislative adjunct to House Common Education Committee Chairman Dick Lowe, Caitlin Kilpatrick, pointed NBC News to reporting by nan news outlet NonDoc that said Lowe attended nan committee meeting. Lowe told nan publication that while he did not spot nan video of nan naked women, he discussed nan matter pinch nan 2 committee members who did position nan images.

“Shocked would beryllium possibly an understatement a small bit. In nan position that that personification is in, that’s perfectly without a mobility not due by immoderate intends for immoderate authorities official, overmuch little that authorities official,” Lowe told NonDoc.

Walters, a blimpish Republican, has pushed for proposals to further merge belief successful schools, specified arsenic placing Bibles successful them. He has besides advocated for requiring students enrolled successful authorities nationalist schools to supply impervious of U.S. citizenship.

In a connection posted Sunday connected X aft nan allegations surrounding nan meeting, Walters denied immoderate wrongdoing.

"Any proposal that a instrumentality of excavation was utilized to watercourse inappropriate contented connected nan tv group is categorically false. I person nary knowledge of what was connected nan TV surface during nan alleged incident, and location is perfectly nary truth to immoderate accusation of wrongdoing," Walters said. "These falsehoods are nan hopeless strategies of a surgery constitution acrophobic of existent change. They aren’t conscionable attacking me, they’re attacking nan values of nan Oklahomans who elected maine to situation nan position quo."

NBC News reached retired to Walters and his spokesman, arsenic good arsenic Deatherage, Carson and nan 4 different members of nan Oklahoma Board of Education, for comment.

Oklahoma House Minority Leader Cyndi Munson, a Democrat, said successful a connection Monday that nan Democratic Caucus has made six calls complete nan past 2 years requesting a typical bipartisan committee to analyse Walters regarding different matters.

"Before these caller allegations came out, he has shown aggregate times passim his activity that he has nary liking successful bettering nan nationalist acquisition strategy for students and teachers. He is chiefly concerned pinch advancing his ain governmental and belief agendas," she said.

"These caller allegations are superior and troubling, and while we hold for nan investigation to beryllium finished, I deliberation it’s prudent to admit that location has been a dire request for alteration successful activity astatine nan Oklahoma State Department of Education for a agelong time."