Quote of the Day | September 23, 2019 - Oklahoma Policy Institute

“It’s not unique to southeast Oklahoma. Our offices around the state stay busy. It hits rural Oklahoma as bad as Oklahoma City and Tulsa. Some of them start very small. Maybe an officer makes a traffic stop. And the guy says, ‘I’ll give you my source for a lighter sentence.’ Nine months later, you’ve got 45 defendants.”

– Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics Spokesman Mark Woodward, on Oklahoma’s meth epidemic [The Oklahoman]

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Carly Putnam joined OK Policy in 2013. As Policy Director, she supervises policy research and strategy. She previously worked as an OK Policy intern, and she was OK Policy's health care policy analyst through July 2020. She graduated from the University of Tulsa in 2013. As a student, she was a participant in the National Education for Women (N.E.W.) Leadership Institute and interned with Planned Parenthood. Carly is a graduate of the Oklahoma Center for Nonprofits Nonprofit Management Certification; the Oklahoma Developmental Disabilities Council’s Partners in Policymaking; The Mine, a social entrepreneurship fellowship in Tulsa; and Leadership Tulsa Class 62. She currently serves on the boards of Restore Hope Ministries and The Arc of Oklahoma. In her free time, she enjoys reading, cooking, and doing battle with her hundred year-old house.

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