What: Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Tribal Symposium
When: Friday, May 5, 2023 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Where: Lawton City Hall, 212 SW 9th Street, Lawton, OK
Featuring: Mike Fina, Executive Director, Oklahoma Municipal League
Stan Booker, Mayor of Lawton
Mark Woommavovah, Chairman of the Comanche Nation
The first Sovereignty and Cities, United Strength Symposium was held in January and this Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Tribal Symposium is a follow up to our first event. The Symposium has been established to provide a forum in which ideas concerning common municipal issues can be exchanged amongst peers in a community building environment. It is our goal that through building communication streams, unity, and combining shared resources, an enhanced commonality between tribes and municipalities will be created.
The Public Safety and Criminal Justice Reform Tribal Symposium will focus on areas such as Municipal Public Safety, Collaborative Examples in Public Safety, Collaborative Efforts for Community Safety, a Criminal Justice Overview, a presentation from the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Organization (MMIW) (MMIP), and Health and Welfare of Shared Citizenry and Residents/Victims Services.
Speakers at the event (in alphabetical order) will include:
Brandon Berryhill, Chief of Police, Broken Arrow, Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation
Dr. Kathleen Elliott, OML Tribal-Municipal Affairs Specialist, Citizen of Muscogee (Creek) Nation
Daniel McClure, OML General Counsel, Citizen of the Choctaw Nation
Arvo Mikkanen, Assistant U.S. Attorney and Senior Counsel for Tribal Relations, U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Oklahoma, Kiowa/Comanche and an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe
Daniel Wind, Deputy Chief, Muscogee Creek Nation Lighthorse
Mark E. Woommavovah, Comanche Nation Chairman
If you have interest in attending the event, or setting up interviews with speakers, please contact Leslie Blair at leslie@oml.org or (405) 528-7515.
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