Drummond notifies federal court of Sara Polston’s removal from GPS program

OKLAHOMA CITY (Oct. 2, 2026) – Attorney General Gentner Drummond’s office today notified a federal court that Sara Polston has been removed from the Oklahoma Department of Corrections’ GPS surveillance program and reassigned to a correctional facility. The move stems from an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations that she voted illegally as a convicted felon.

Polston is serving an eight-year sentence for a 2023 drunk-driving crash that seriously injured a young woman. She was released early to the GPS ankle monitoring program after just 73 days behind bars. A Multi-County Grand Jury report released in May found her early release resulted from political favoritism by Gov. Kevin Stitt.

According to today’s notice, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, the Department of Corrections reassigned Polston from the Electronic Monitoring Program to the Mabel Bassett Correctional Center on Oct. 1. Polston is accused of voting in both the June 16 and Aug. 25 statewide elections. State law bars people from voting while they're serving a felony sentence.

"Sara Polston has again shown Oklahomans that she believes she does not have to be held accountable for her actions," Drummond said. "She belongs in prison for causing an accident while driving under the influence of alcohol that resulted in great bodily injury to an innocent young woman. Now, she has used her highly controversial and inappropriate release to the Department of Corrections GPS surveillance program to again flout the law. The reality is that no one, including Sara Polston, is above the law."

Polston filed a federal lawsuit in August seeking to block her removal from the GPS program under Senate Bill 137, which goes into effect Nov. 1. Today’s notice states her reassignment was based on the program’s own rules, not the new law.