Oklahoma Code § 70-6-101.8

Title 70. Schools: Restrictions on attorneys involved in due process
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hearings.
An attorney, representative, or other designee of the school
district who has represented or represents a school district or the
administration of a school district at a hearing held for the
purpose of affording due process rights and requirements for an
administrator as provided for in Section 6-101.13 of Title 70 of the
Oklahoma Statutes, a teacher as provided for in Section 6-101.26 of
Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes, or a support employee as provided
for in Section 6-101.46 of Title 70 of the Oklahoma Statutes or who
has been involved or participated in any prehearing actions of the
school district with respect to a recommendation for the termination
of employment or nonreemployment of an administrator, teacher, or
support employee shall not:
1.  Conduct or preside as the hearing officer or judge at a due
process hearing or hearings; and
2.  Attend, advise at, or in any way influence an executive
session of the school district board of education that is held in
conjunction with a due process hearing or hearings if the attorney,
representative, or other designee of the school district conducted
or presided over the due process hearing or hearings as the hearing
officer or judge.
Added by Laws 2013, 1st Ex. Sess., c. 8, § 2, emerg. eff. Sept. 10,
2013.
NOTE:  Text formerly resided under repealed Title 70, § 6-101.7,
which was derived from Laws 2009, c. 228, § 74, which was held
unconstitutional by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in the case of
Douglas v. Cox Retirement Properties, Inc., 2013 OK 37, 302 P.2d 789
(Okla. 2013).

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