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HB1773 • 2026

County jails; directing the county sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication system; codification; effective date.

County jails; directing the county sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication system; codification; effective date.

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Sponsor
Moore
Last action
2025-02-04
Official status
Second Reading referred to Rules
Effective date
Not listed

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County jails; directing the county sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication system; codification; effective date.

County jails; directing the county sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication system; codification; effective date.

What This Bill Does

  • County jails; directing the county sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication system; codification; effective date.

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Bill History

  1. 2025-02-04 House

    Second Reading referred to Rules

  2. 2025-02-03 House

    First Reading

  3. 2025-02-03 House

    Authored by Representative Moore

Official Summary Text

County jails; directing the county sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication system; codification; effective date.

Current Bill Text

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STATE OF OKLAHOMA

1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)

HOUSE BILL 1773 By: Moore

AS INTRODUCED

An Act relating to county jails; directing the county
sheriff to create an Orange Alert communication
system; requiring posting of information about the
communication system in local newspaper; requiring
residents to register for notifications; directing
the county sheriff to promulgate policies and
procedures; providing for codification; and providing
an effective date.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW A new section of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 70 of Title 57, unless there is
created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows:
A. The sheriff of each county shall create for each county jail
facility within the county an "Orange Alert" communication system to
notify any resident within a radius of forty (40) miles when an
inmate of the county jail has escaped. Information regarding how to
register for an Orange Alert via the communication system shall be
posted in a newspaper of record within the county in which the

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county jail facility is located. It shall be the responsibility of
each resident of the county to register to receive Orange Alert
notifications from the communication system.
B. The sheriff of each county shall promulgate policies and
procedures for establishing a county-wide Orange Alert communication
system.
SECTION 2. This act shall become effective November 1, 2025.

60-1-10386 GRS 01/02/25