Oklahoma Survivors Act

The Oklahoma Survivors Act, or OSA, is legislation that went into effect in 2024 that provides "a sentencing procedure on the front end of a prosecution which allows a judge to consider evidence of abuse" in a criminalized survivor's case. "If the abuse is substantiated, then the survivor is entered into a lesser sentencing range than they were originally eligible for" and provides retroactive relief to those already sentenced before the bill's passing. For retroactive relief, it involves shortening sentences with ranges, which may reduce the sentence to time served. It was modeled on the New York DVSJA bill and was the first one passed in a southern state, overcoming a Governor veto. April Wilkens was the first to apply for resentencing under the act.