Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is giving credit to Governor Kevin Stitt for signing a couple of law enforcement related bills, while encouraging him to sign the recently passed immigration bill.
Drummond praises Stitt for making House Bill 3642 and Senate Bill 1280 the law of the land.
HB 3642 expands the definition of “child pornography” to include computer generated or altered images of children forced to engage in sexually explicit conduct.
“Our laws must be one step ahead of rapidly advancing technology to hold bad actors accountable and combat the evil that is child pornography,” the Attorney General said. “The revolution in artificial intelligence has an indisputable dark side, and it is important we close loopholes that would otherwise allow child predators to elude justice.”
SB 1280 makes combining fentanyl with any other controlled substance a felony punishable by up to life in prison and a $50,000 fine.
“We must do everything in our power to combat this deadly fentanyl epidemic,” Drummond said. “Oklahoma knows all too well the devastating impact of how opioid addiction is wreaking havoc on our state. We must put laws into place to strengthen the consequences of contributing to this grave problem.”
Drummond is encouraging the Governor to sign House Bill 4156, which makes it a crime to be an undocumented person residing in Oklahoma.
“Law enforcement needs tools at its disposal to successfully eliminate Oklahoma’s numerous illegal marijuana grows and the other criminal activity that entails, including human trafficking and fentanyl distribution,” said Drummond. “In the wake of the Biden Administration’s abject refusal to secure the nation’s border and address the illegal immigration crisis, Mexican drug cartels and Chinese crime syndicates have taken root in our state. I urge Gov. Stitt to sign HB 4156 quickly so Oklahoma law enforcement can step in where the federal government has failed.”
HB 4156 was fast tracked through the Legislature by House Speaker Charles McCall and Senate President Pro Tem Greg Treat over the past week and a half.
