OCPA President files complaint against Rep. Anthony Moore over frivolous, political protective orders

OCPA President files complaint against Rep. Anthony Moore

Jonathan Small, president of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, today filed a complaint with the Oklahoma State Bar Association against Rep. Anthony Moore, an attorney and former prosecutor. The complaint shows the blatant legal flaws in the protective orders that Moore admits assisting his spouse to file against Small and other OCPA staff members. Moore, as an attorney and former prosecutor, knows the law and is bound by the rules of legal ethics not to abuse the judicial process for his own political purposes.

Frivolous, politically-motivated protective orders against OCPA dropped

In the final days before the primary, State Rep. Anthony Moore's wife sought and received a protective order against several employees of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs (OCPA) following what she alleged were threatening text messages. The Moore's seem to have never detailed what exactly was so threatening and have dismissed the protective orders, leaving OCPA furious at what appears now to have been nothing more than a politically-motivated media stunt, and an abuse of the protective order system.

OCPA's press release below:

Moore drops abusive protective orders

(July 6th) Rep. Anthony Moore’s spouse moved to dismiss all five Temporary Protective Orders that she had filed eight days before the primary election, including against four employees of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. The dismissal was made public on Tuesday.

OCPA staff seek dismissal of "abusive court filings"

For some background, State Rep. Anthony Moore's wife filed for, and received, a protective order against four individuals employees of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs following allegedly "threatening" text messages that were sent to Moore's wife. The OSBI got involved (customary, as it deals with a sitting legislator) in investigating the messages. Here is OCPA's response:

 

OCPA staff seek dismissal of abusive court filings

OKLAHOMA CITY (June 22, 2022)— In filings today, four employees of the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs asked for the immediate dismissal of protective-order petitions filed against them by state Rep. Anthony Moore’s spouse. The motions show that the petitions fail to meet the requirements needed for a valid protective order.