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Marshall announces attorney Billy Underwood has pleaded guilty to jury tampering

Wednesday, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R) announced that Colbert County attorney William “Billy” Underwood pleaded guilty to jury tampering rather than continuing with a trial that began earlier in the morning. Underwood was sentenced to serve four months in jail. He was further required to permanently surrender his license to practice law in the … Continued
August 22, 2019

Spencer Collier lawsuit against former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley settled

Former Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Secretary Spencer Collier has settled his lawsuit against former Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, Bentley’s alleged mistress Rebekah Mason and the former head of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Stan Stabler and others. The lawsuit alleged wrongful termination and defamation after Collier was dismissed from his position with the ALEA. Collier … Continued
June 13, 2019

Merrill renews commitment to the Alabama Election Fairness Project

Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill announced Thursday that the Alabama Election Fairness Project has been renewed in a Memorandum of Understanding between Alabama’s Secretary of State John Merrill, Attorney General Steve Marshall and Secretary of Law Enforcement Hal Taylor. Since the memorandum’s inception in March 2015, the Alabama Secretary of State’s Office has closed … Continued
June 7, 2019

Ivey awards grant to Fusion Center to help track criminal activity

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey awarded a $105,000 grant to ALEA’s Fusion Center on Thursday to improve the capability of the state’s law enforcement agencies to locate and arrest criminals and make communities safer. The grant will enable the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency’s Fusion Center to share information with law enforcement agencies more easily and improve … Continued
April 19, 2019

House member moves to abolish ALEA

The Republican supermajority created the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency, known as ALEA, in 2013, as a way to operate public safety in a more efficient, cost-effective way according to the legislation’s sponsors. However, the efficiency and cost savings have not materialized and now HB210 in the House of Representatives is moving to dismantle the sweeping … Continued
April 2, 2019

Protests over Bradford shooting have moved to Montgomery, AG Steve Marshall’s home

Protests over the shooting death of E.J. Bradford by a Hoover police officer have now moved to Montgomery. More than a dozen protesters roamed the streets of the Hampstead neighborhood in Montgomery, where Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall lives, using a bullhorn and chanting “hands up, don’t shoot.” Montgomery Police were called to the scene, … Continued
December 31, 2018

Ivey awards grant to assist sexual assault victims in Southwest Alabama

Gov. Kay Ivey has awarded a $316,475 grant to assist sexual assault victims in three southwestern Alabama counties. The grant was awarded to the Family Counseling Center of Mobile Inc. to offer no-cost professional services to sexual assault victims and affected family members in Mobile, Clarke and Washington counties. “Sexual assault is a horrendous physical … Continued
December 19, 2018

The Hoover situation gets stranger every day

What’s happening in Hoover makes no sense. Every day, there’s another report that’s stranger than the last report. Every day, someone says something that they have to almost immediately correct. Every day, there is some action taken by city leaders or Alabama Law Enforcement Agency officials that makes it seem as though they actually want … Continued
December 7, 2018

Protest is an American right, deserves respect

Overkill is probably a bad word to use in this context, but it’s accurate. Law enforcement is out in huge numbers to quell protests that continue in Hoover in the wake of the literal overkilling of Emantic “E.J.” Bradford Jr. on Thanksgiving night. The resources being used to divert or “contain” the generally small and … Continued
December 7, 2018

U.S. Marshals capture a suspect in the Galleria Mall shooting

A suspect in the Thanksgiving night Riverchase Galleria Mall shooting in Hoover has been arrested by U.S. Marshals near Atlanta. Twenty-year-old Erron Marquez Dequann Brown surrendered peacefully to US Marshals Thursday morning at a relative’s house in Fulton County, Georgia. He is being held in the Fulton County Jail pending extradition back to Alabama on … Continued
November 30, 2018