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After its barn collapsed, the Oklahoma State Polo Club is looking to the community for help.

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From the Ground Up: Polo club looks to rebuild after barn collapses

Carlie Hasty Staf f R e p o rt e r @ o c o l ly

With nowhere to look but forward, the Oklahoma State Polo Club is turning to the community for new land, materials and any help it can get while it tries to replace its storage barn after its recent collapse.

Recent strong winds caused the walls and roof to partially give in, said Josh Storey, an agriculture business pre-law senior.

“The barn was getting old,” Storey said. “We finally had to tear the rest of the walls down for safety and salvage everything we could.”

Susan Brand, polo club president and agriculture economics graduate student, said the club is a hardworking group of students that has been around for more than 10 years.

“We have tryouts every year to be on the competing teams, but we have quite a few members who just come out and ride,” Brand said.

“We haven’t been able to practice

in a while.”

Fifteen students run the polo club, a job that includes the management of time-consuming tasks such as taking care of the horses and polo equipment.

“We have some land for our horses to be on, but we lost the shelter we had for all of our important equipment and the two recovery stalls we had for horses that got hurt or sick,” said Devan Groves, an animal science sophomore. “We have a couple of temporary sheds for the horses that need them, but that is just a temporary measure that we are having to take.”

The polo club receives $3,000 from the university every year, but the amount is not near enough to cover the expenses of taking care of 14 horses, Groves said.

He said the club’s expenses include paying for medical bills and spending hundreds of dollars every few weeks on feed.

With club dues coming in at $325 a semester per member, the amount partially covers only some of the expenses needed to proceed with the season and other club activities.

“Right after the barn collapsed, we also learned that the land we’re occupying will no longer be available to us within the next couple of years,” Brand said. “On top of rebuilding now, we also are in search of potential acres for our horses to live on.”

courtesy of carly cockrum Fifteen students run the Oklahoma State Polo Club, which has been a club at the university for more than 10 years. The polo club is trying to raise money for new land, materials and a replacement storage barn.

The club has reached a halt in its practice schedule as members try to plan out its next move, Brand said.

“We are trying to do as much work as we can,” Brand said. “But, because of the time of the year, we are all gone a lot for breaks. We do what we can with our schedules.”

Quinn Llewellyn, a management and finance sophomore, said the club started a GoFundMe to help raise money and achieve the goal

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of about $10,000.

“We are starting out with a reasonable goal, but we know that as we take these next couple of steps, we will have to raise more money,” Llewellyn said.

So far, the club has raised about $1,100 since the website was started.

“In addition to donations, we are really asking for contact information,” Brand said. “We want to get in touch with alumni who would be

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Experts say OSU could be violating Open Records Act

K a e ly n n Knoernschild M an ag ing E d i to r @ k a e ly n n _ k

Oklahoma State University routinely keeps secret the names of students, faculty or anyone else arrested for committing crimes on campus.

University officials redact

the names of individuals issued criminal summonses — notices to appear in court — from campus police reports until the Payne County District Attorney’s Office files charges. If no charges are filed, the name of the person remains secret.

Of the police reports the O’Colly has obtained, OSU police have issued at least 54 summonses since September 2014.

Charges have been filed in 35 of those cases, meaning the public doesn’t know the names of at least 19 people accused of committing crimes on campus.

Keeping the names secret leaves the public wondering

OSU Police department Redacted police reports list the offense(s), date of the offense(s) and where the offense(s) occurred.

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what OSU is hiding and whether all offenders of the law are receiving the same treatment, said Jonathan Anderson, chair of the Society of Professional Journalist Freedom of Information Committee.

“Are donors, faculty, students and celebrated athletes held to the same standard?” Anderson asked. “The university — a taxpayer-funded, public institution — says that’s none of the public’s business.”

OSU basketball player Anthony Allen was issued a summons for possession of marijuana in February, but his name was kept secret for more than a month until charges were filed after the season ended in March.

OSU officials claim the university doesn’t have to release the names of students issued summonses because they have not been arrested.

But a host of experts disagree.

Officials for the U.S. Department of Education and the police department for Oklahoma City Community College, as well as open government experts, assert a criminal summons is an arrest and, therefore, the names are public when the summons is issued.

The federal Clery Act, designed to improve reporting of campus crime, defines an arrest as “persons processed by arrest, citation or summons,” according to the U.S. Department of Education.

OCCC’s police chief said universities lawfully can’t redact the name of someone who has been given a ticket or arrested.

“Here, if somebody came in and wanted to look at all the tickets we’ve written on campus, we would show them to OCOLLY.COM

osu police department OSU officials redact the names of individuals issued criminal summons from police reports until the district attroney’s office files charges.

them,” Fitzpatrick said. “I don’t know what I would use as a basis of saying, ‘I’m not gonna show them to you.’

“If they’ve written up a report and they’ve cited someone for possession of marijuana, I don’t know how they’re keeping (the names) from you.”

Oklahoma’s criminal procedure statute affirms that a law enforcement officer who has arrested a person on a misdemeanor charge or violation of city ordinance may issue a citation to appear in court.

The Oklahoma Open Records Act requires law enforcement

agencies to make public the description — including the name, date of birth, address, sex, race, physical description and occupation — of people arrested.

An attorney at Hall Estill in Oklahoma City said the name of the person issued a summons is a public record and should be available to the public upon request.

“It seems to me that OSU continues its practice of playing word games with the Open Records Act,” Robert Nelon said in an email. “An arrest doesn’t mean that you’re taken STORY CONTINUES ON PAGE 5

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to jail. If you are detained by a law enforcement officer long enough to be issued a citation or summons for some offense, then you have been ‘arrested’ within the meaning of the (Open Records Act).”

Carrie Hulsey-Greene, OSU associate communications director and spokesperson for OSUPD, said the university has discretion to withhold the identities of students who have been issued summonses.

“If our officers issue a summons/notice to appear, we will not be releasing the name of the person who’s issued that summons/notice to appear until they have been charged by the court,” Hulsey-Greene said.

“That is within our discretion of the Open Records law whether or not to do that.”

Hulsey-Greene said that according to OSU’s legal office, it is within the university’s discretion to “err on the side of privacy.”

The Student Press Law Center’s executive director said Oklahoma law does not allow that discretion.

“The university is wrong on the law,” Frank LoMonte said.

“Oklahoma law is actually very clear that there is no ‘discretionary personal privacy’ exemption.”

LoMonte said the statute entitles the public, without exception, to information about every arrestee despite whether charges have been filed.

“Students are not some special ‘invisible class’ of arrestee,” LoMonte said.

Even when charges are filed by the Payne County District Attorney’s Office, it’s difficult for the public to know who was charged. Outside of name WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2015

Enough with secrecy, transparency is key

and date on the OSUPD police report, no corresponding identifiers connect the incident report to the charges filed on Oklahoma’s court database.

Anderson said the university editorial I The public has a right to know how law enforcement officials should reconsider its position, are handling crimes on campus and who in the community is accused of which raises questions about committing crimes. its compliance with the Open Records Act. It’s egregioud to hide O ’C o l ly e di to ri al board gently exercise (our) inher“Under the guise of protecting @ o c o l ly behind the argument that ent political power.” student privacy, OSU is shieldWhen it comes to the dis- keeping the names of indiThe O’Colly believes ing from public view the identi- semination of law enforceviduals secret, particularly redacting law enforcement ties of all people who have been ment records, Oklahoma students, is a beneficial records prohibits that right. issued citations and summonses State University needs to be practice for young students In a statement issued last by police,” Anderson said in an transparent. adjusting to adulthood. You year, OSU said it would email. “Yet OSU has failed to OSU is redacting the cannot shield an alleged release student names assoarticulate why there is a legitinames of students who are criminal’s identity from the ciated with parking tickets. mate privacy interest in the first issued summonses until public because the criminal The university said the place: Why should any adult — the Payne County District is young and made a misdistinction between parking student or not — be entitled to Attorney’s Office files take. tickets and police reports is keep alleged violations of public charges. OSU asserts that By making this argument, parking tickets are issued policy and law a secret?” the issuance of a criminal the university is prioritizing by Parking and TransportaAnderson said even if some summons is not an arrest the privacy of the student tion services and, therefore, degree of privacy is at stake, and, therefore, information rather than the public’s are not law enforcement OSU is ignoring the public’s about the student should be right to know.

The pubrecords. interest in how police exercise kept private. lic — taxpayers, students, By this standard, the power. He argued that students OSU should release professors, members of the and taxpayers can’t efficiently public is entitled to know names associated with community and donors — monitor OSUPD’s actions and which students have resummonses.

The public has has a right to know who know whether officers are doing ceived parking tickets in the is committing crimes at a their jobs effectively and fairly if a right to know how law last month, but not indiuniversity it helps fund. the public doesn’t know who re- enforcement officials are viduals who have received When the name is redact- summonses for drug ofceives citations and summonses. handling crimes on campus and who in the community ed from a police report, it is fenses.

By making it difficult to deextremely difficult to track termine whether people accused is accused of committing The blatant refusal to of crimes were subjects of com- crimes. Barring members of the case through the judicial distribute arrestee informaplaints or involved in incidents the media from accessing process. Without a name, tion might cause the public that weren’t prosecuted, OSU these names hurts the pubthe only identifiers the pub- to wonder what else OSU is prohibiting the public from lic. The O’Colly, among lic can use are the offense might be hiding. With completely assessing crime and other news organizations, is and date of the offense. The names on reports being identifying trends on campus, responsible for disseminatinability to keep tabs on withheld, the public has no Anderson said. ing that information. cases as charges are filed way of knowing who is and “(The university’s) decision The practice of redacting — or not filed — keeps the who is not being charged. breeds distrust of law enforcepolice reports when a sumpublic in the dark.

Are athletes, professors and ment and casts a cloud over the mons is issued and charges As Oklahomans, accordother university employees police department, shaping how have not been filed is habit- ing to state public policy, receiving preferential treatthe public interacts with ofual for the university. OSU we are “vested with the inment? ficers,” Anderson said. “People says awarding students who herent right to know and be We don’t know unless we may wonder: What is OSU have made a mistake with fully informed about (our) have the documentation. hiding?” a second chance should be government so that (we) opinion@ocolly.com the university’s goal. can efficiently and intellinews@ocolly.com OCOLLY.COM

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47 Tennis great Andre 50 Studio piece 52 “Swan Lake” swan 53 Customer holding: Abbr.

54 Closed 55 Produced, as fruit 56 Tel Aviv airline 57 Smidgen 58 Quiet yeses 60 Celeb with a mansion OCOLLY.COM

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