Alabama truckers join in fight against human trafficking
By Chuck Chandler
January 29, 2021
Truckers Against Trafficking has had a major impact across the nation and in Alabama, where truckers urged the Legislature to pass a 2019 law requiring anti-trafficking training for anyone holding a commercial driver s license. (Truckers Against Trafficking)
More than 110,000 truckers across Alabama are on the lookout during National Human Trafficking Awareness Month, hoping to drive out “one of the most egregious human rights violations in the USA and around the world.”
Alabama Trucking Association President and CEO Mark Colson said his organization and Truckers Against Trafficking (TAT) helped generate bipartisan support in 2019 in the Alabama Legislature that led to a law which went into effect one year ago. All new commercial driver’s license holders are now required to be trained in how to spot and report human trafficking.
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When Alabama’s Legislature convenes for its annual session on February 2, lawmakers will once again be asked to consider a bill that would provide certain Alabamians with access to medical cannabis. And this time, supporters of the legislation will look west towards neighboring Mississippi, where last November voters overwhelmingly approved a medical cannabis initiative that will provide for a state regime to regulate the cultivation, production and sale of medical cannabis to patients with qualifying conditions.
Our regular readers know that Alabama surprised the cannabis world first in 2019 and then again last year when the state Legislature very nearly passed medical cannabis legislation. Here we’ll discuss the substance of the current legislation and our view on its chance of passage.
By Paul DeMarco
Alabama state leaders have been working to overcome the consequences of the pandemic and the resulting economic impact.
Now add a new lawsuit against the Alabama Department of Corrections by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) to the mix.
The feds have been threatening the suit for months, but with very little notice to the State, moved forward last week. The lawsuit accuses the prison system of violating the constitutional rights of the inmates. There is no question the state’s corrections system has been the source of controversy for decades, but the Governor has been working diligently on a plan which would add three new prisons to the state to alleviate overcrowding.
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