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Sen. Micheal Bergstrom’s Press Releases

Showing: October, 2019

October 22, 2019 | 01:19am

Time to turn cellphones into paperweights

In September, Oklahoma prisons went on lockdown. It began with a gang-related fight in the Northeast Oklahoma Correctional Center in Vinita before spreading to prisons throughout the state. A coordinated uprising, which resulted in injuries to correctional officers, the hospitalization of 36 inmates and the death of one inmate. All coordinated with cellphones.
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October 14, 2019 | 01:19am

Sen. Bergstrom appointed to Route 66 Centennial Commission

State Sen. Micheal Bergstrom, R-Adair, has been appointed to serve on the Oklahoma Route 66 Centennial Commission, a 21-member panel that will help plan the state’s celebration of the 100th anniversary of “The Mother Road.”