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SPLC sues Montgomery County Board of Education for expulsion of two students after Lee High shooting

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed a pair of lawsuits against the Montgomery County Board of Education, alleging that the district violated two students’ rights to due process before expelling them.  The SPLC says two students were unjustly expelled after a shooting at Robert E. Lee High School in February 2019 where a 17-year-old … Continued
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January 23, 2020

Alabama Supreme Court sends ADP fight back to Montgomery

The fight for control of the Alabama Democratic Party is going back to Montgomery County Circuit Court.  The Alabama Supreme Court on New Year’s Eve dismissed an appeal related to the jurisdiction of the case in which Nancy Worley, the former head of the Alabama Democratic Party, filed a lawsuit in an attempt to stop … Continued
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January 3, 2020

Parole hearings this Week

The Alabama Board of Pardons and Paroles announced in a statement to the press that it will hold parole hearings for twenty violent offenders this week. Among them one murderer, three sex offenders, and eight who were convicted of robbery. Deashton Luvoris Hayes is a two-time convicted robber. He was sentenced in 2010 to two … Continued
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December 17, 2019

BCA announces 2020 judicial endorsements

The board of directors for ProgressPAC, the political action committee of the Business Council of Alabama, has endorsed five statewide judicial candidates who are running for election in 2020.  The candidates are: – Greg Shaw, Supreme Court, Place 1 – Brad Mendheim, Supreme Court, Place 2 – Beth Kellum, Court of Criminal Appeals, Place 2 –  Mary Windom, Court of … Continued
December 16, 2019

County commissioners report: 2015 prison reform led to less prisoners in prison but more in county jails

Wednesday, the Executive Director of the Association of County Commissions of Alabama Sonny Brasfield told county commissioners that sentencing reform in 2015 has shifted more prisoners and the costs of those prisons from state prisons to county jails and county budgets. “I let you down,” Brasfield told the commissioners. In 2015, the state legislature passed … Continued
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December 11, 2019
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A new low for the Alabama Supreme Court: A most unethical appointment

Mike Hubbard is going to get away with it.  Or, at least, he’s going to get away with some of it. The Alabama Supreme Court is going to step in and overrule a jury that acted intelligently and applied the law properly, and it’s going to toss some of the former Alabama House speaker’s felony … Continued
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December 3, 2019

Judge orders charter school principal back on the payroll

A Montgomery County Circuit Court judge on Friday ordered that a charter school resume the salary and benefits of a fired principal — at least until a ruling is issued in the principal’s wrongful termination lawsuit.  Nicole Ivey-Price, who was fired from LEAD Academy in October, was granted a temporary restraining order by Judge Jimmy … Continued
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November 25, 2019