The Tulsa County Juvenile Detention Home passed its latest state inspection with zero violations, capping a two-year turnaround at a facility placed on probation after abuse allegations and recordkeeping failures.

The Oklahoma Juvenile Affairs' Office of Public Integrity (OPI) conducted the audit on Aug. 25, KJRH reported. The written report had not been released as of Aug. 29, but Director David Parker said inspectors gave the facility a verbal all-clear.

It was the fourth or fifth consecutive clean audit, Parker told KJRH.

The sharpest measure of change is the grievance count. Juveniles housed at the facility filed more than 220 grievances in 2024. That number fell to 26 in 2025 and to just 6 through August 2026, according to Parker.

"When we took over, there was well over 220 grievances filed by our juveniles in 2024 … only 6 this year, and so the things that we continue to put in place are affecting the overall operations and quality of life for the people who work and live here," Parker said.

The facility, also known as the Family Center for Juvenile Justice (FCJJ), sits at 500 W. Archer in Tulsa. A civil rights lawsuit filed in May 2024 by 20 minors alleged sexual assaults and other illegal treatment inside the building. Two former detention officers, Jonathan Hines and Dquan Doyle, faced sexual abuse-related charges. As of July 2024, the civil lawsuit and a criminal case against Hines were still pending, according to KJRH's earlier reporting.

Parker came out of retirement in 2024 to take over as director. He implemented mental health support, created a reward system for residents, added library resources and new technology, and pushed to fix recordkeeping that he said had fallen apart.

"I don't know if there was a lack of documentation or no one knew where it was, so we started completely over," Parker told KJRH in July 2025, when the station reported on the facility's probation being lifted.

OPI had been auditing the detention home every 90 days while it was on probation. After probation was lifted in the summer of 2025, inspections shifted to an annual schedule. The audits examine juvenile grievances, security measures, critical incidents and how long juveniles are confined to their rooms.

Parker said staffing remains a challenge, noting the national average turnover rate for juvenile detention facilities is about 50 percent. Tulsa County commissioners also set up a voluntary oversight board for the facility, according to Parker.

Assistant Manager Penny Lewis was honored in October 2025 with the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy's Jon Hansen Public Servant Award, according to a Tulsa County Government post on X.

Parker said OPI typically takes about a week to produce the written report from the Aug. 25 inspection.