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The Alabama Senate Thursday approved legislation creating a uniform suspension and expulsion process for public K-12 students. HB 188, sponsored by Rep. Terri Collins, R-Decatur, extends due process to children in the school disciplinary system. The bill passed 32-0. “They are the only body that did not have due process,” said Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, […] The post Alabama Senate approves bill providing due process for public school students appeared first on Alabama Reflector.

Alabama's front line advocates focused on disability, voting and civil rights are taking legal action against what they see as voter suppression. Organizations including the ACLU, the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program, and Greater Birmingham Ministries have filed a lawsuit to block Senate Bill 1, which has just become state law. It restricts community groups, churches and even neighbors from helping people with absentee ballot applications. ...

The process for correcting ballot errors is set to become easier this year thanks to a bill passed in Olympia this session. Lawmakers unanimously approved Senate Bill 5890, which aims to reduce ballot rejection rates because of issues like mismatched signatures. Jazmine Smith, political manager for The Washington Bus, a youth voting organization, said the changes will reduce disenfranchisement. ...

A Morgan County sheriff's corporal who, along with her boyfriend, was charged with trafficking fentanyl after deputies justified a search of her home by finding marijuana detritus in her outside