Oklahoma crime

Firearm mortality includes suicide, homicide, and other intents. The provision concerns firearm access, safety, or prevention of firearm injury and may address only part of the death count. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

Section 129. A. A judge of the district court, municipal judge, or retired judge of the district court who receives a statement from the appropriate retirement system verifying the status of the person as a retired judge of the district court may carry a firearm on his or her person throughout the state to use only for personal protection if the person has successfully completed a handgun qualification course for court officials developed by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training. The Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training may provide for an identification card to be issued to the judge of the district court, retired judge of the district court, or municipal judge and may provide application forms. If the person issued an identification card is no longer eligible, that person shall immediately return the identification card to the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training. B. In addition to the requirements provided for in subsection A of this section, a retired municipal judge, having served as a municipal judge for twenty (20) cumulative years, as certified by the Oklahoma Municipal Judges Association, and who is qualified to serve as a municipal judge, may carry a firearm on his or her person throughout the state to use only for personal protection; provided, however, the retired municipal judge shall not be authorized to carry the firearm into any district court of this state. Retired district judges, district attorneys or assistant district attorneys who are currently authorized to carry firearms throughout the state pursuant to state law shall be exempt from the provisions of this subsection. C. The chief judge of the district court may issue a written order allowing a municipal judge to carry a firearm within the district court during the time period in which he or she serves as the chief judge. SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

Firearm mortality includes suicide, homicide, and other intents. The provision concerns firearm access, safety, or prevention of firearm injury and may address only part of the death count. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

A. It shall be unlawful for any person, including a person in possession of a valid handgun license issued pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, to carry any concealed or unconcealed firearm into any of the following places: 1. Any building or office space which is owned or leased by a city, town, county, or state governmental authority for the purpose of conducting business with the public. However, the governing body of a city or town may authorize the concealed carry of handguns into any building or office space that is owned or leased by a city or town, except those places listed in paragraph 2 of this subsection; 2. Any courthouse, courtroom, prison, jail, detention facility, or any facility used to process, hold, or house arrested persons, prisoners, or persons alleged delinquent or adjudicated delinquent, except as provided in Section 21 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes;

The amendment adds specified telecommunications property to a theft-related entry offense and creates a higher-damage variant. This concerns protection against a particular class of property taking. Entry with intent alone is not automatically an FBI burglary, larceny-theft or motor-vehicle-theft incident; it does not establish more reported index crimes, a reporting requirement or proven prevention. This connection does not establish causation or a change in the earlier measured value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Reported property-crime rate. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1727, as amended by Section 455, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp. 2025, Section 1727), is amended to read as follows: Section 1727. A. Any person who enters any premises, easement, or right-of-way with intent to steal or remove without the consent of the owner, or with intent to aid or assist in stealing or removing without the consent of the owner, any copper wire, copper cable, copper tubing from and off of any appurtenance, or any item that is known or reasonably should be known as ordinarily used by, belonging to, or identified with markings indicating ownership by a telephone, telegraph, Internet, broadcast, or wireless communication company on such premises, easement, or right-of-way shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through E of Section 20N of this title, or by a fine not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine. B. Any person who enters any premises, easement, or right-of- way with intent to steal or remove without the consent of the owner, or with intent to aid or assist in stealing or removing without the consent of the owner, any copper wire, copper cable, or copper tubing from and off of any appurtenance, or any item that is known or reasonably should be known as ordinarily used by, belonging to, or identified with markings indicating ownership by a telephone, telegraph, Internet, broadcast, or wireless communication company on such premises, easement, or right-of-way resulting in damages to the appurtenance, premises, easement, or right-of-way of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) or more shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through E of Section 20M of this title, or by a fine not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine. SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

Firearm mortality includes suicide, homicide, and other intents. The provision concerns firearm access, safety, or prevention of firearm injury and may address only part of the death count. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

B. It shall be lawful for a person to carry a concealed or unconcealed firearm on the following properties: […] and 7. Any state-owned hotel, cabin, or lodge. Nothing contained in any provision of this subsection or subsection C of this section shall be construed to authorize or allow any person in control of any place described in subsection A of this section to establish any policy or rule that has the effect of prohibiting any person in lawful possession of a handgun license or otherwise in lawful possession of a firearm from carrying or possessing the firearm on the property described in this subsection.

Firearm mortality includes suicide, homicide, and other intents. The provision concerns firearm access, safety, or prevention of firearm injury and may address only part of the death count. This connection does not establish causation. Actions after the measurement period cannot explain the earlier observed value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Firearm deaths. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 3. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1289.16, is amended to read as follows: Section 1289.16. FELONY POINTING FIREARMS A. It shall be lawful to point a firearm, knife, or any other deadly weapon at another person or persons by : 1. A person who can legally own or possess a weapon pursuant to the provisions of Section 1272 of this title: a. during an act of self-defense, or b. in defense of real or private property, whether owned, leased, or occupied by permission of the property owner and whether or not the person possesses a valid handgun license issued pursuant to the Oklahoma Self- Defense Act; 2. A person in the defensive display of a firearm or other deadly weapon, as provided for in Section 1289.25 of this title; 3. Law enforcement authorities in the performance of their duties ; 4. Armed security guards licensed by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training pursuant to the Oklahoma Security Guard and Private Investigator Act in the performance of their duties ; 5. Members of the state military forces in the performance of their duties ; 6. Members of the federal military reserve and active military components in the performance of their duties ; 7. Any federal government law enforcement officer in the performance of any duty ; or 8. Any person during the performance of a play on stage, while participating in a rodeo, or when participating in a television program or film project. B. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully and without lawful cause point a firearm, knife, or any other deadly weapon, whether loaded or not, at any person or persons for the purpose of threatening or with the intention of discharging the firearm or with any malice or for any purpose of injuring, either through physical injury or mental or emotional intimidation, or for purposes of whimsy, humor, or prank, or in anger or otherwise. C. Any person convicted of a violation of the provisions of this section shall be punished as provided in Section 1289.17 of this title. […] K. 1. The defensive display of a firearm or other deadly weapon by a person is justified when and to the extent a reasonable person believes that physical force is immediately necessary to protect himself, herself, or another person against the use or attempted use of unlawful physical or deadly force by a person, premises owner or controller in self-defense, or in defense of real or private property, located on any premises, owned, rented, leased, or occupied by permission of the premises owner or controller, whether or not a person is in possession of a valid handgun license issued pursuant to the provisions of the Oklahoma Self-Defense Act, and shall not be deemed a criminal act. 2. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to a person who: a. intentionally provokes another person to use or attempt to use unlawful physical or deadly force, or b. uses a firearm during the commission of an unlawful act involving force or violence. 3. The provisions of this subsection do not require the defensive display of a firearm or any other deadly weapon before the use of defensive force or the threat of defensive force by a person who is justified in the use or threatened use of defensive force. 4. For purposes of this subsection, "defensive display of a firearm" includes, but is not limited to: a. verbally informing another person that the person possesses or has available a firearm or any other deadly weapon, b. exposing or displaying a firearm or any other deadly weapon in a manner that a reasonable person would understand was meant to protect the person against the use or attempted use by another of unlawful physical or deadly force, or c. placing the hand of the person on a firearm or any other deadly weapon while the firearm is contained in a pocket, purse, holster, sling scabbard, case or other means of containment or transport.

Homicide is included in the referenced violent-crime statute. The law creates an investigation-review process for qualifying unresolved cases; it is not a new mortality-reporting system or proof of prevention. This connection does not establish causation or a change in the earlier measured value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Homicide deaths · Reported violent-crime rate. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 146 of Title 21, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: A. For the purposes of this section: 1. “Case file review” means a review of all information, evidence, records, testimonies, and other pertinent information regarding a cold case; 2. “Cold case” means a case of violent crime, as provided for in Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no likely perpetrator has been identified; 3. “Designated person” means an immediate family member or similar individual as determined by the law enforcement agency reviewing a case file; 4. “Immediate family member” means the spouse, a child by birth or adoption, a stepchild, a parent by birth or adoption, a stepparent, a grandparent, a grandchild, a sibling, or a stepsibling of a victim; 5. “Law enforcement agency” means any department or agency of the state, a county, a municipality, or a political subdivision thereof, with the duties to maintain public order, make arrests, and enforce the criminal laws of this state or municipal ordinances and that employs personnel certified by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training; and 6. “Victim” means the victim of a violent crime. B. 1. A law enforcement agency shall review the case file regarding a cold case upon written application by a designated person to determine if further investigation would result in probative investigative leads. 2. The case file review shall include, but not be limited to: a. an analysis of the investigative steps or follow-up steps that may contribute to the initial investigation, b. an assessment of whether witnesses should be interviewed or reinterviewed, c. a review of physical evidence to determine if all appropriate forensic testing and analyses were performed in the first instance or if additional testing might produce information relevant to the investigation, and d. a modernization of the file to raise it to current investigative standards to the extent that it would develop probative leads. 3. The person or persons employed by a law enforcement agency and performing the case file review shall not have previously investigated the cold case being reviewed. 4. The law enforcement agency shall confirm receipt of the request for a case file review in writing within thirty (30) days of receipt of the application pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection. 5. Only one case file review shall be undertaken at a time with respect to the same victim. 6. a. The law enforcement agency reviewing a cold case shall, within six (6) months of receiving an application for a case file review, reach a conclusion about whether further investigation is warranted pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection. b. The law enforcement agency shall be authorized to extend the time requirement pursuant to subparagraph a of this paragraph for a period of up to six (6) months at a time if the law enforcement agency determines that the number of case files to be reviewed would make it impracticable to comply with the provisions of this subsection. The law enforcement agency shall provide written notice and an explanation of the reasoning for extending the time frame for conclusion of a case file review to the designated person who made the written application pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection. C. If there is more than one law enforcement agency that would be subject to reviewing the same cold case, the law enforcement agencies shall jointly coordinate the case file review. D. 1. The law enforcement agency shall consult with the designated person who filed a written application pursuant to paragraph 1 of subsection B of this section and provide the designated person with periodic updates during the case file review. 2. The law enforcement agency shall meet with the designated person and discuss the findings to explain the decision whether to engage in further investigation. E. 1. If a case file review is completed and the law enforcement agency concludes that further investigation is not warranted, no additional review shall be taken for the same cold case for at least five (5) years, unless new evidence that is materially significant is discovered. 2. If a suspect is not identified after further investigation, no additional case file review or further investigation shall be undertaken for the same cold case for at least five (5) years. F. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to interfere with the ability of law enforcement to conduct further investigation. SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

The amendment adds specified telecommunications property to a theft-related entry offense and creates a higher-damage variant. This concerns protection against a particular class of property taking. Entry with intent alone is not automatically an FBI burglary, larceny-theft or motor-vehicle-theft incident; it does not establish more reported index crimes, a reporting requirement or proven prevention. This connection does not establish causation or a change in the earlier measured value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Reported property-crime rate. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 2. AMENDATORY 21 O.S. 2021, Section 1727, as amended by Section 455, Chapter 486, O.S.L. 2025 (21 O.S. Supp. 2025, Section 1727), is amended to read as follows: Section 1727. A. Any person who enters any premises, easement, or right-of-way with intent to steal or remove without the consent of the owner, or with intent to aid or assist in stealing or removing without the consent of the owner, any copper wire, copper cable, copper tubing from and off of any appurtenance, or any item that is known or reasonably should be known as ordinarily used by, belonging to, or identified with markings indicating ownership by a telephone, telegraph, Internet, broadcast, or wireless communication company on such premises, easement, or right-of-way shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class D1 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through E of Section 20N of this title, or by a fine not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) nor more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine. B. Any person who enters any premises, easement, or right-of- way with intent to steal or remove without the consent of the owner, or with intent to aid or assist in stealing or removing without the consent of the owner, any copper wire, copper cable, or copper tubing from and off of any appurtenance, or any item that is known or reasonably should be known as ordinarily used by, belonging to, or identified with markings indicating ownership by a telephone, telegraph, Internet, broadcast, or wireless communication company on such premises, easement, or right-of-way resulting in damages to the appurtenance, premises, easement, or right-of-way of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) or more shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a Class C2 felony offense punishable by imprisonment as provided for in subsections B through E of Section 20M of this title, or by a fine not to exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00), or by both such imprisonment and fine. SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.

Homicide is included in the referenced violent-crime statute. The law creates an investigation-review process for qualifying unresolved cases; it is not a new mortality-reporting system or proof of prevention. This connection does not establish causation or a change in the earlier measured value.

Retained Oklahoma evidence context: Homicide deaths · Reported violent-crime rate. This record’s connection to the topic does not establish an effect on the measured result.

SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 146 of Title 21, unless there is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: A. For the purposes of this section: 1. “Case file review” means a review of all information, evidence, records, testimonies, and other pertinent information regarding a cold case; 2. “Cold case” means a case of violent crime, as provided for in Section 571 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes, for which all probative investigative leads have been exhausted and for which no likely perpetrator has been identified; 3. “Designated person” means an immediate family member or similar individual as determined by the law enforcement agency reviewing a case file; 4. “Immediate family member” means the spouse, a child by birth or adoption, a stepchild, a parent by birth or adoption, a stepparent, a grandparent, a grandchild, a sibling, or a stepsibling of a victim; 5. “Law enforcement agency” means any department or agency of the state, a county, a municipality, or a political subdivision thereof, with the duties to maintain public order, make arrests, and enforce the criminal laws of this state or municipal ordinances and that employs personnel certified by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training; and 6. “Victim” means the victim of a violent crime. B. 1. A law enforcement agency shall review the case file regarding a cold case upon written application by a designated person to determine if further investigation would result in probative investigative leads. 2. The case file review shall include, but not be limited to: a. an analysis of the investigative steps or follow-up steps that may contribute to the initial investigation, b. an assessment of whether witnesses should be interviewed or reinterviewed, c. a review of physical evidence to determine if all appropriate forensic testing and analyses were performed in the first instance or if additional testing might produce information relevant to the investigation, and d. a modernization of the file to raise it to current investigative standards to the extent that it would develop probative leads. 3. The person or persons employed by a law enforcement agency and performing the case file review shall not have previously investigated the cold case being reviewed. 4. The law enforcement agency shall confirm receipt of the request for a case file review in writing within thirty (30) days of receipt of the application pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection. 5. Only one case file review shall be undertaken at a time with respect to the same victim. 6. a. The law enforcement agency reviewing a cold case shall, within six (6) months of receiving an application for a case file review, reach a conclusion about whether further investigation is warranted pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection. b. The law enforcement agency shall be authorized to extend the time requirement pursuant to subparagraph a of this paragraph for a period of up to six (6) months at a time if the law enforcement agency determines that the number of case files to be reviewed would make it impracticable to comply with the provisions of this subsection. The law enforcement agency shall provide written notice and an explanation of the reasoning for extending the time frame for conclusion of a case file review to the designated person who made the written application pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subsection. C. If there is more than one law enforcement agency that would be subject to reviewing the same cold case, the law enforcement agencies shall jointly coordinate the case file review. D. 1. The law enforcement agency shall consult with the designated person who filed a written application pursuant to paragraph 1 of subsection B of this section and provide the designated person with periodic updates during the case file review. 2. The law enforcement agency shall meet with the designated person and discuss the findings to explain the decision whether to engage in further investigation. E. 1. If a case file review is completed and the law enforcement agency concludes that further investigation is not warranted, no additional review shall be taken for the same cold case for at least five (5) years, unless new evidence that is materially significant is discovered. 2. If a suspect is not identified after further investigation, no additional case file review or further investigation shall be undertaken for the same cold case for at least five (5) years. F. The provisions of this section shall not be construed to interfere with the ability of law enforcement to conduct further investigation. SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2026.