The Norman City Council discussed its municipal "peeping tom" ordinance during a Tuesday night conference session before its regular council meeting.

Norman Police Deputy Chief Ricky Jackson presented the city's current municipal policy, and a copy of Oklahoma's state statutes. Largely, he said, there's almost universal overlap between the two sets of policies.

But, he said there's a pattern of police officers filing charges in municipal court, versus district court, which he said is often perceived as "the path of less resistance."

He urged the council to take on an effort to repeal the municipal ordinance. If that happened, all charges for "peeping toms" would be filed as state charges in the future, which is a court of record. Norman's municipal court is not a court of record.

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