Oklahoma state regulations dictate that records recording public activities including court papers, police arrest records, marriage licenses, traffic infractions and more are open and available to the populace, largely as a result of the Oklahoma Open Records Act. This information contain names, dates, specifications on cases, sentences, processes and a lot more, and are all presumed public unless otherwise stated. Sand Springss authorities and criminals both are held accountable because of the transparency afforded by this law, making Sand Springs, and by extension the united states, a more free and open culture.