Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025
Have the reports of explicit images displayed on Ryan Walter’s office television during a meeting been proven impossible to have happened by OMES and the sheriff’s office, as he claimed?
Investigations done by OMES and the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office into State Board of Education members’ reports of witnessing naked women on Walters’s television have not confirmed nor denied the incident’s occurrence, and the OCSO has since turned its findings and the investigation over to the Oklahoma County District Attorney.
Walters, who insists the allegations are lies meant to assassinate his character, additionally claimed that OMES and the Sheriff’s Office had checked all of the devices and that the cable television has no devices connected to it.
However, according to the OMES report, the only device analyzed was the television; it was found to have streaming services, which were not fully reviewed, a connection to a DVD player, and screen casting.
OMES can only review state or personal devices with the owner’s permission, and had contacted Walters’s office prior to the investigation to ask which device(s) to examine.
This fact brief is responsive to conversations such as this one.
Sources
- NonDoc OMES Ryan Walters Report
- Oklahoma County Sheriffs Office Offical Facebook page
- NonDoc ‘Desperate tactics’: Walters blames TV drama on ‘lies’ as OMES report contradicts claims
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