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MONTGOMERY – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced the winners of the 2025 Safe School Awards. The selection process featured a comprehensive four phase application and review process by highly educated judges who have skill and knowledge in school safety trends. Nine schools from across the State of Alabama were selected to receive the Safe School Award, the highest achievement. Attorney General Marshall will visit each school to present their award in person. "Through the A...
MONTGOMERY – Chief Justice Sarah H. Stewart has appointed retired Circuit Judge Allen T. Jolley as a visiting judge to preside over State of Alabama v. William Chase Johnson in Macon County Circuit Court, marking the implementation of the Speedy Trial Act which was passed by the Alabama Legislature last year. Johnson is charged with capital murder in the November 2019 shooting death of Lowndes County Sheriff John "Big John" Williams at a Hayneville gas station. Attorney General Marshall's Office...
(Montgomery, Ala) - Attorney General Steve Marshall has joined a 21-state coalition of attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Florida's law that ensures that public-school libraries do not provide sexually graphic materials to their young students. A federal district court in Florida ruled that the law likely violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment and entered an order prohibiting Florida from enforcing the l...
(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Marshall joined a brief challenging a Colorado school district's policy that uses a student's self-professed gender identity rather than biological sex to room students together on field trips and sporting events. A federal district court dismissed a lawsuit brought by parents challenging the policy. Attorney General Marshall joined a 21-state brief in support of the parents' appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. The brief a...
November 10, 2025 - (Montgomery, Ala) – Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Cullman County Circuit Court granted his request for a temporary restraining order against Aurora IV and Wellness, a Cullman-based IV infusion clinic, and its owners, Amanda and Chris Medders. The Attorney General alleges that the defendants illegally administered unsafe, research-grade weight loss drugs to patients without their knowledge or consent. The Attorney General's Office sought a temporary r...
MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall today hosted the 26th Annual Alabama Attorney General's Law Enforcement Summit. The Summit, held at the Church of the Highlands, provided continuing education training for law enforcement and attorneys from across the state. Participants heard from experts on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Alabama, efforts to combat human trafficking, and modern-day policing. The event also included a memorial ceremony honoring...
September 21, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today filed two 28-state amicus briefs urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve states' authority to enact laws that protect girls' sports by ensuring that all participants are biological females. Idaho and West Virginia enacted such laws but had them invalidated by the Ninth and Fourth Circuit Courts of Appeals, respectively. Both courts held that the state laws likely violate the Equal Protection Clause of the F...
September 15, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – The Alabama Engage Together Project (ETP) has selected 12 Research Fellows from six universities across the state to join its groundbreaking, multi-year effort to end and prevent human trafficking in Alabama. ETP is a two-phase, three-year transformational community assessment initiative spearheaded by Attorney General Steve Marshall. The project is designed to identify community strengths and gaps, mobilize multi-sector collaboration, and equip local l...
September 2, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall led a 21-state amicus brief today in the U.S. Supreme Court supporting the religious freedoms of the Amish community in rural New York. The State of New York has imposed massive penalties on Amish-only private schools because Amish parents hold religious beliefs against vaccinating their Amish children who attend these schools. The brief, filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, argues that when New York eliminated l...
September 4, 2025 - MOINTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction of Teenya Dashawn Heard, 47, of Oxford, for murder. Heard was convicted in the Calhoun County Circuit Court on February 15, 2024. The evidence at trial showed that on the evening of July 24, 2020, Heard attended a birthday party and left her children at home with her husband. Heard's husband joined her later at the birthday party and subsequently got...
August 22, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the indictment of two individuals in a case involving multiple property crimes occurring in Thomasville, Alabama. Anthony Kirven Williams and Teresa Cobb Williams, of Linden, were arrested and booked into the Clarke County Jail on August 20. They each have a bond set at $450,000. The alleged crimes occurred in Clarke County and were investigated by the Thomasville Police Department and the Attorney General's Consumer...
August 21, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 21 attorneys general calling on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to take emergency action to schedule a drug linked to deaths across the country. In a letter to DEA Administrator Terry Cole, the attorneys general sounded the alarm on bromazolam, a dangerous and unregulated designer drug often referred to as "designer Xanax." They outlined safety concerns calling bromazolam "highly p...
August 25, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL. – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a coalition of 26 states in support of ending California's illegal war on gas-powered cars and trucks. The States' brief filed in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals explains the authority of Congress and President Trump to revoke waivers granted to California by the Biden Administration's EPA. The waivers authorized by Biden allowed California's radical net-zero emissions to dictate what vehicles A...
August 26, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today that a former employee of the Alabama Medicaid Agency has been convicted for the theft of over $100,000 in public funds. Natalie Colette Lewis, 60, of Montgomery, pleaded guilty to Aggravated Theft of Property before Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid. Sentencing is set for October 2nd. Lewis faces up to 30 years imprisonment, a $60,000 fine, and forfeiture of her state retirement benefits. Lewis had...
August 12, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today expressed his strong support for President Donald Trump's nomination of Edmund LaCour Jr. to serve as a U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama. "President Trump could not have made a better choice than Edmund LaCour for the federal bench," said Attorney General Marshall. "Eddie is one of the most brilliant and principled lawyers with whom I have ever worked. His deep understanding of the law, h...
July 15, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Last week, on behalf of Attorney General Steve Marshall, Chief Deputy Attorney General Clay Crenshaw presented the inaugural Carolyn Potter Outstanding Anti-Human Trafficking Service Award, recognizing exceptional leadership and impact in the fight against human trafficking in Alabama. The award honors an individual or organization that has significantly advanced anti-human trafficking efforts across the state. It is intended to commend admirable service, e...
July 11, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced Alabama's participation in a nationwide settlement with eight drug makers that manufactured opioid pills and worsened the nationwide opioid crisis. All eight defendants have agreed to proceed with a sign-on period for local governments. Alabama will receive, with full participation by local governments, public hospitals, and other government agencies, approximately $11.725 million from the eight drug m...
June 20, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced the application process for the 2025 Alabama Safe Schools Initiative Awards. These awards provide the opportunity to identify and recognize excellence and current trends in school safety throughout the state. The deadline to file an application is Friday, August 15, 2025. "There is nothing more important than protecting the health and safety of our children, especially while they are in school. As the key st...
July 3, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL - Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the convictions of Bryan Craig Fox, 54, of Oneonta, for murder and unlawful possession of a firearm. Fox was convicted in the Blount County Circuit Court on May 21, 2024. In November 2021, Fox was living in Oneonta with his wife, Sharon Teal Askew. Fox, at the time of his wife's murder, was involved in an extramarital relationship and was a convicted criminal who was not allow...
June 16, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Attorney General Steve Marshall today announced a nationwide $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family. The Sackler family has informed the 55 attorneys general, representing all eligible states and U.S. territories, of the plan to proceed with the settlement, which would resolve litigation against Purdue and the Sacklers for their role in creating and worsening the opioid crisis across the country. Now that the state sign-on p...
June 18, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a statement celebrating today's U.S. Supreme Court decision in United States v. Skrmetti. The 6-3 decision upheld Tennessee's law imposing age-based restrictions on access to sex-change procedures against an Equal Protection Clause challenge by the Biden Administration and the ACLU. The decision clears the way for enforcement of similar laws in over 25 States, including Alabama, that prohibit doctors from p...
(Huntsville, Ala.) – Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today the conviction and life sentence of Reginald Eugene Scott, 45, of Huntsville, Alabama for Trafficking in Cocaine. Based upon the evidence, Scott was a leader and organizer of a wide-ranging drug trafficking organization with ties to criminal elements throughout the southeast. And, over the course of the investigation, law enforcement recovered numerous firearms related to drug trafficking. Scott pleaded guilty to one count o...
May 28, 2025 - MONTGOMERY, AL – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined a 28-state coalition of state attorneys general in sending a letter to Meta Platforms, Inc., expressing grave concerns over recent reports that Meta's AI chatbot, Meta AI, exposes children to sexually explicit content. The letter highlights that the platform fails to warn parents about these risks and enables adult users to engage in sexually predatory behavior-using AI bots that can simulate interactions with underag...
May 23, 2025 - MONTGOMERY. AL – Attorney General Steve Marshall sent a multi-state letter urging the U.S. House of Representatives to pass the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act and create a framework for lawful concealed carry across state lines. In a letter sent to House leadership about H.R. 38, Attorney General Marshall and 23 other state attorneys general emphasized that broad rights for concealed carry among law-abiding citizens promote public safety and respect gun owners' f...
May 1, 2025 - ASHLAND, AL – Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today the conviction of Terry Andrew Heflin, a former Democratic candidate for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, for committing absentee ballot fraud during his campaign. Heflin pleaded guilty to one count of absentee ballot fraud, a Class C felony. In entering his plea, Heflin admitted to unlawfully requesting and completing another citizen's absentee ballot, voting for himself without the voter's knowledge or c...
