'This isn’t a column about brutal conditions in Alabama schools or about Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation open records law. It’s about both of those things. This is a story about how our broken records law hides law-breaking, how one thing enables the other.'
Jun. 26, 2023, 7:30 a.m.
But before 2011, many Alabama schools were doing just that — putting disruptive students in “seclusion,” as administrators called it.The Alabama State Board of Education told school systems to knock it off. In 2011, the board passed a statewide policy banning the practice, and that was supposed to be that.A few years ago, my colleague at, Trisha Crain, picked up on something interesting. At least some schools were locking kids up, anyway, and the Alabama Department of Education knew as much.
The state was supposed to be collecting reports each year from the school systems, too. Crain asked to see that data by submitting a public information request — three years ago.This isn’t a column about brutal conditions in Alabama schools or about Alabama’s worst-in-the-nation open records law. It’s about both of those things. This is a story about how our broken records law hides law-breaking, how one thing enables the other.
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