## [Citizen Report No. 1668111190 - 412796012](/citizen-report-no-1668111190-412796012) [![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_500_x_500_/public/2022-11/Chris.Douthit.2.PNG?itok=N3wJ5xdk)](/individual/chris-%20douthit)Chris Douthit **[Carter County Sheriff's Office](/oklahoma/carter-county-sheriffs-office)** 100 South Washington Ardmore, Oklahoma 73401 [(580) 223-6014](tel:%28580%29223-6014) [https://cartercount…](https://cartercountysheriff.us/) [![Carter County Sheriff's Office](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2022-04/download%20-%202022-04-27T122836.973.jpg?itok=YRwYq9G7 "Carter County Sheriff's Office")](/oklahoma/carter-county-sheriffs-office) ## Date of Offense November 9, 2022 ## Offense(s) [Deprivation of Rights](/duty/deprivation-rights) [Misconduct](/duty/misconduct) ## Supporting Document(s) [Attorney FB Post 1](/sites/default/files/2022-11/facebook.com-Jason%20D%20May%20Attorney%20at%20Law%201st%20post_0.pdf "facebook.com-Jason D May Attorney at Law 1st post_0.pdf") [Attorney FB Post 2](/sites/default/files/2022-11/facebook.com-Jason%20D%20May%20Attorney%20at%20Law%202nd%20post_0.pdf "facebook.com-Jason D May Attorney at Law 2nd post_0.pdf") [DOJ Civil Rights Complaint Record #218562-JHC](/sites/default/files/2022-11/civilrights.justice.gov-Thank%20you%20for%20submitting%20a%20report%20to%20the%20Civil%20Rights%20Division_0.pdf "civilrights.justice.gov-Thank you for submitting a report to the Civil Rights Division_0.pdf") [News Article](/sites/default/files/2022-11/kten.com-Lawyer%20reports%20hidden%20camera%20in%20Carter%20County%20Jail_2.pdf "kten.com-Lawyer reports hidden camera in Carter County Jail_2.pdf") ## Statement NO PUBLIC CLEET RECORD On or about November 9, 2022, an Ardmore Defense Attorney, Jason D. May, disclosed to the public that he had received information that a recording device/camera was installed in the light fixture within the Attorney/Client conference room in the Carter County Jail. The attorney discovered the information to be true upon personally investigating the allegation received from an unnamed Sheriff Office employee and then inspecting the room and discovering the device. Statements by [Carter County Sheriff Chris Bryant](https://giglio-bradylist.com/citizen-report-no-1668041429-2075670572) to news media outlet: "I was unaware that it was there. The former sheriff in 2002 had authorized a recording device to be placed in the light fixture for a limited purpose that led to the arrest of an attorney, Twana Cherese Smith, for smuggling contraband into the room," Bryant said. Chris Douthit is the jail administrator for the Carter County Sheriff's office. He is responsible for the management, security, and safety of the County Jail, as well as overseeing daily operations, including maintenance of the facility. If Sheriff Bryant's press release is to be considered factual, then it would mean that the attorney client room had not received an adequate "shake down" in 20 years. It should also be noted, as indicated in Jason May's 2nd Facebook Post (see attached), that the life span of the lights bulbs would have provided jail maintenance an estimated 20-27 opportunities to discover, and report, the hidden camera. This indicates that Chris Douthit either grossly neglected his duties as jail administrator, OR he was aware of the camera and failed to report it to proper authorities, and thereby cooperated in the misconduct and depravation of defendant's due process rights. Because Douthit's position would require him to work closely with Sheriff Bryant and Undersheriff [Tommy "Gus" Handke](https://giglio-bradylist.com/citizen-report-no-1668109727-1744374630), it is unlikely, he had no knowledge of of the device. --- [![Citizens Overseeing Police Oklahoma](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/2025-07/Citizens%20Overseeing%20OK%20Logo%20%28250%20x%20250%20px%29%20%281%29.png?itok=DZqGUclc "Citizens Overseeing Police Oklahoma")](/oklahoma/citizens-overseeing-police-oklahoma) ***We will not stand by as our brothers and sisters are brutalized, criminalized, and silenced.*** We reject a world where the powerful profit from our poverty and our lives are treated as expendable. We will not wait for justice to be handed down from above. We will organize, resist, and take it for ourselves. **WE ARE NO LONGER ASKING...** \#ReformIsNotARequest [Learn more >>>](/oklahoma/citizens-overseeing-police-oklahoma)