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Ivey introduces Gus Malzahn at Public Safety Insurance fund luncheon

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spoke to members of the Public Safety Insurance Fund in Montgomery on Tuesday. “It is great to be with you today,” Ivey said. “I am certainly honored to be here for the 17th annual award luncheon with members of the Public Safety insurance fund.” “Alabama was the first state in the … Continued
April 17, 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

ALEA having difficulty hiring qualified State Troopers

Wednesday, the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency presented their 2020 budget request to a joint meeting of the Legislature’s budget committees. ALEA Secretary Hal Taylor said that hiring more officers is his primary goal. Taylor said that finding qualified candidates who can pass the drug testing and screening process has become difficult. Taylor said he planned … Continued
February 4, 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

ACLU, NAACP make demands of authorities following Hoover police shooting

Thursday, the ACLU of Alabama and Alabama NAACP filed public records requests to police departments in Birmingham, Mobile, Montgomery, Hoover, Huntsville, and Saraland for their use-of-force policies, body camera policies, and racial bias training materials, following the Thanksgiving shooting of Emantic “E.J.” Fitzgerald Bradford Jr. and other incidents where excessive use of force has been … Continued
December 13, 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