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Oklahoma

Oklahoma Open Records Act

51 O.S. § 24A.1 et seq.

Public records law for Oklahoma. Covers state agencies, counties, municipalities, school districts, and special districts.

The clock

No fixed deadline — “reasonable time”

Prompt, reasonable time; no fixed days.

No fixed deadline. Aletheca does not run a countdown against this statute and does not record a constructive denial on elapsed time alone — a breach here has to be argued from the facts of the request, not asserted from a number.

Statutory: Prompt, reasonable time; no fixed days.. Actual medians vary widely by agency and request complexity; simple requests often 7-30 days, complex 60-300+.

Reading the statute itself

The text of this one is not reproduced here. The United States Code carries no copyright, so federal FOIA is printed on this site in full; the fifty state codes are published by fifty legislatures under their own claims of compilation copyright, so they are linked instead. Everything on this page — the deadline, the appeal path, the fee-waiver standard — is Aletheca’s summary of that text, and the official source is one click away.

If they refuse

Appeal deadline
Not specified
Appeal route
No admin appeal; district court.
Litigation
Not specified

Fees and expedition

Quirks worth knowing

Reasonableness standard; relatively broad exemptions.