## [Citizen Report No. 1681857978 - 886034568](/citizen-report-no-1681857978-886034568) [![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_500_x_500_/public/2023-04/Kevin%20Clardy%20McCurtain%20Co%20Sheriff.jpg?itok=wXpeBlql)](/individual/kevin-%20clardy)Kevin Clardy **[McCurtain County Sheriff's Office](/oklahoma/mccurtain-county-sheriffs-office)** 108 North Central Avenue Idabel, Oklahoma 74745 [https://mccurtain.o…](https://mccurtain.okcounties.org/offices/county-sheriff) [![McCurtain County Sheriff's Office](/sites/default/files/styles/max_325x325/public/2022-04/download%20-%202022-04-29T135520.385.png?itok=Lsuy2SlZ "McCurtain County Sheriff's Office")](/oklahoma/mccurtain-county-sheriffs-office) ## Date of Offense April 15, 2023 ## Offense(s) [Misconduct](/duty/misconduct) [Supremacy](/duty/supremacy) ## Supporting Document(s) [Audio mp4 - Released ](/sites/default/files/2023-04/kevin%20clardy%20-%20Twitter%20Search%20_%20Twitter.mp4 "kevin clardy - Twitter Search _ Twitter.mp4") [Oklahoman Article](/sites/default/files/2023-04/oklahoman.com-Oklahoma%20sheriff%20commissioner%20accused%20of%20discussing%20killing%20a%20reporter%20and%20returning%20to%20Black%20hanging.pdf "oklahoman.com-Oklahoma sheriff commissioner accused of discussing killing a reporter and returning to Black hanging.pdf") ## Statement ![McCurtain County Gazette](/sites/default/files/inline-images/gazette_0.PNG)McCurtain County Gazette Volume 50, Number 32Sheriff Kevin Clardy CLEET # 0033868 The McCurtain County Gazette released **attached audio** of county officials discussing plans to kill one of their reporters and reminiscing on the days of lynching Black people. [Investigator Alicia Manning](https://giglio-bradylist.com/individual/alicia-%20manning), [Jail Administrator Larry Hendrix](https://giglio-bradylist.com/individual/larry-%20hendrix) along with [District 2 County Commissioner Mark Jennings](https://mccurtain.okcounties.org/offices/commissioner-district-2), [District 3 County Commissioner Robert Beck](https://mccurtain.okcounties.org/offices/commissioner-district-3), and [Commissioner Secretary, Heather Carter](https://mccurtain.okcounties.org/departments/commissioners-executive-assistant) were caught via a audio recording obtained by one of the reporters while they met in a local public office. --- [![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)