SNYDER, Okla. — An Oklahoma police chief will keep his job, despite what his wife does for a living.
Police Chief Tod Ozmun and his wife Doris live in Snyder, just west of Lawton. However, the chief’s wife is known worldwide for her work as a plus-sized model on a pornographic Web site.
“This came to light because some of the people in town went onto the Internet to download pictures of her and started passing them out around the citizens here in town,” said Mayor Dale Moore.
Moore said he based his decision on what’s best for Snyder — either to keep a chief who many believe doesn’t share their morals or to fire a man who’s keeping residents safe. That decision was to keep Ozmun as police chief.
“We will take no action on Chief Ozmun,” Moore said. “He was not involved in these, and he has broken no laws.”
“He’s done more drug arrests, solved more crimes than anybody else in town has ever done,” he added.
Resident Bryan Norton said he wants the chief fired.
“When our kids come home from school telling us that the chief’s wife is a porno queen, how do you answer that?” said Norton.
Last week, the Ozmuns agreed to sit down with Eyewitness News 5 for an exclusive interview, but their attorney advised against it on Tuesday.
Doris Ozmun was paroled in March 2005 after spending two years in the state prison system on drug-related charges. She released a statement in her defense:
“Hi, my name is Doris Ozmun. I am a 43-year-old adult model. I am in no way affiliated with the Snyder Police Department other than the fact I am married to the chief of police, Tod Ozmun. The Web site I am featured on is in no way affiliated with the Snyder Police Department nor the city of Snyder.
“I have done nothing illegal, and it is my First Amendment right of the Constitution. You do not have to like or agree with what I do for me to be protected by the First Amendment right.”