A Letter to the Mayor

Lynn Staggs Blog Post

In a letter written January 9, 2020, to the Honorable Mayor G.T. Bynum: Dear Mayor Bynum,  Over the past few months, the League of Women Voters of Metropolitan Tulsa embarked on a series of meetings to better understand the issue of racial bias in policing. We met with our membership, city leadership, and the community at-large. We also studied the Tulsa Equality Indicators, the Human Rights Watch report, and heard from a local citizen commission.   The result …

Building Greater Equality in Tulsa

Shailaja Marion Announcement

This meeting welcomes City of Tulsa Deputy Mayor Amy Brown and Major Laurel Roberts from the Tulsa Police Department as the discussion continues on concerns about racial bias in our city’s policing efforts. Our guest, Deputy Mayor Amy Brown served as an aide for former Mayor Kathy Taylor. Bynum was elected mayor in 2016, and Brown was appointed deputy mayor …