A Cleveland County Judge heard arguments in a lawsuit challenging the University of Oklahoma’s refusal to release findings from a 1-million-dollar investigation into alleged misconduct by former university leaders. The lawsuit filed by NonDoc, a non-profit newsroom, accuses OU of violating Oklahoma’s open records laws by withholding documents related to a 2018 investigation conducted by a private law firm. The publicly funded university hired the law firm when allegations surfaced claiming that OU had inflated alumni donor data given to U.S. News & World Report to improve the institution’s rankings on national “Best Colleges” lists.
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