Nude women streamed to office TV derail Oklahoma Board of Education meeting

With Walters blowing off their concerns about what had just happened and why it had happened in the middle of a state education meeting, the two board members took their story to media outlets the next day. NonDoc and The Oklahoman both ran long pieces on it. Walters’ office sent sarcastic statements calling the outlets “NonsenseDoc” and “The Woklahoman,” respectively.

Oklahoma’s legislative branch then got involved, opening an investigation into the incident through the state’s Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES). According to Senate President Pro Tem Lonnie Paxton (R), “The accounts made public by board members paint a strange, unsettling scene that demands clarity and transparency.”

By Monday, OMES had turned the matter over to the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, according to local TV station News 9.

So how does a television apparently meant for displaying charts and presentations start, midway through a meeting, showing nude women around a table? Who knows. I was once on a family trip to Europe with my relatives, and as a cousin flipped through channels on the lobby television set, hardcore pornography popped into view before a shocked group of parents, aunts, and uncles. A state office building in Oklahoma, however, seems unlikely to subscribe to these kinds of channels.

Judging by Walters’ press release, the suspicion appears to be that someone in the room had a phone, tablet, or laptop connected to or previously paired with the television, and that the images were coming from that machine. But Walters specifically denies—if this is indeed what happened—that he was responsible.

With the Sheriff’s Office on the case, though, we may soon find out exactly what’s been going down at closed sessions of the Oklahoma Board of Education. And it promises to be far more interesting than a sentence like that would normally suggest.