{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1024.5","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 21, § 21-1024.5","heading":"Investigation of child pornography","body":"A. When any person has engaged in, is engaged in, or is\n\nattempting or conspiring to engage in any conduct constituting a\n\nviolation of any of the provisions of Section 1024.2 of Title 21 of\n\nthe Oklahoma Statutes, the Oklahoma Attorney General or any district\n\nattorney in Oklahoma may conduct an investigation of the activity.\n\nOn approval of the district judge, the Attorney General or district\n\nattorney, in accordance with the provisions of Section 258 of Title\n\n22 of the Oklahoma Statutes, is authorized before the commencement\n\nof any civil or criminal proceeding to subpoena witnesses, compel\n\ntheir attendance, examine them under oath, or require the production\n\nof any business papers or records by subpoena duces tecum. Evidence\n\ncollected pursuant to this section shall not be admissible in any\n\ncivil proceeding.\n\nB. Any business papers and records subpoenaed by the Attorney\n\nGeneral or district attorney shall be available for examination by\n\nthe person who produced the material or by any duly authorized\n\nrepresentative of the person. Transcripts of oral testimony shall\n\nbe available for examination by the person who produced such\n\ntestimony and their counsel.\n\nExcept as otherwise provided for in this section, no business\n\npapers, records, or transcripts or oral testimony, or copies of it,\n\nsubpoenaed by the Attorney General or district attorney shall be\n\navailable for examination by an individual other than another law\n\nenforcement official without the consent of the person who produced\n\nthe business papers, records or transcript.\n\nC. All persons served with a subpoena by the Attorney General\n\nor district attorney shall be paid the same fees and mileage as paid\n\nwitnesses in the courts of this state.\n\nD. No person shall, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or\n\nobstruct compliance in whole or in part by any person with any duly\n\nserved subpoena of the Attorney General or district attorney\n\npursuant to the provisions of this section, knowingly remove from\n\nany place, conceal, withhold, destroy, mutilate, alter, or by any\n\nother means falsify any business papers or records that are the\n\nsubject of the subpoena duces tecum.\n\nE. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall,\n\nupon conviction, be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by\n\nimprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year, or\n\nby a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by\n\nboth such fine and imprisonment.","path":["OK Code","Title 21"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os21.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"221eb071aeff0002d1f02787172f9f1381e671b316250ebec1e5fda99ca8751d","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1024.4","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-21-21-1024.6"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}