Former Oklahoma Department of Corrections Director Steven Harpe approved a million-dollar deal with a private vendor in early April to install AI call monitoring software in seven state prisons.

Months later, he resigned from state service and took a job with that company.

On Oct. 3, Harpe posted on LinkedIn that he had accepted the position of chief product officer at LEO Technologies , an Austin, Texas-based artificial intelligence company that caters to law enforcement and corrections officials. More than 80 people, including two Board of Corrections members, responded to the post wishing Harpe congratulations. Harpe also shared news of the job change on Facebook.

Six months earlier, on April 3, Harpe authorized a one-year, $1.017 million deal with LEO Technologies

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