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1 STATE OF OKLAHOMA
2 1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
3 HOUSE BILL 1773 By: Moore
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6 AS INTRODUCED
7 An Act relating to county jails; directing the county
sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication
8 system; requiring posting of information about the
communication system in local newspaper; requiring
9 residents to register for notifications; directing
the county sheriff to promulgate policies and
10 procedures; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.
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15 BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
16 SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
17 in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 70 of Title 57, unless there is
18 created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
19 A. The sheriff of each county shall create for each county jail
20 facility within the county an "Orange Alert" communication system to
21 notify any resident within a radius of forty (40) miles when an
22 inmate of the county jail has escaped. Information regarding how to
23 register for an Orange Alert via the communication system shall be
24 posted in a newspaper of record within the county in which the
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1 county jail facility is located. It shall be the responsibility of
2 each resident of the county to register to receive Orange Alert
3 notifications from the communication system.
4 B. The sheriff of each county shall promulgate policies and
5 procedures for establishing a county-wide Orange Alert communication
6 system.
7 SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.
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9 60-1-10386 GRS 01/02/25
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