Source, spring 2012

              SENATE APPROVES NEW OSBI COMMISSIONER
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In this issue:
Improving Forensics… 2
ICAC Bill ……………. 2
Citizens’ Academy…... 3
Award ……………….. 3
Lab Stops Analysis …. 3
Lab Communications.. 4
Governor Mary Fallin appointed Rick Stephens
from Pryor to be a new member on the Oklahoma
State Bureau of Investigation Commission. The
Oklahoma Senate has approved that appointment.
The Commission is comprised of seven members,
three represent law enforcement and four are con-sidered
lay persons. Even though Stephens
worked as an OSBI agent for several years in the
1980s and 1990s, he represents a lay member on
the Commission. Currently, Stephens owns and
operates Stephens Memorial Chapel in Pryor.
Stephens replaces out-going OSBI Commissioner
Mike Wilkerson. Wilkerson served one term on
the Commission. He, too, is a former OSBI agent.
Even as a lay member, Stephens brings many
years of law enforcement to the Commission. At
age 18, Stephens worked as a dispatcher and jailer
for the Mayes County Sheriff’s Office. A few
years later, he took a job as a police officer in Pryor working his way through
college. Stephens earned his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice.
Stephens will attend his first OSBI Commission meeting August 21st. Commis-sioners
serve seven-year terms and are chosen based on Congressional districts
in Oklahoma.
Other commissioners include Chairman Ted Fariss (lay member), Vice Chair-man
Stanley Glanz (sheriff’s member), Russell Noble (lay member), Mike Fields
(district attorney’s member), Danny Ford (police chief’s member), and Anne
Holzerberlein (lay member).
Commissioners meet quarterly at OSBI Headquarters to discuss and review
agency matters and statistics. For a list of the meeting dates and times, visit the
OSBI website at www.ok.gov/osbi.
Sen. Sean Burrage (Claremore-D)
sponsors Rick Stephens’ nomina-tion
to the OSBI Commission in
front of the Senate Judiciary
Committee
Spring 2012 Edition