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Alabama Open Meetings Law

Most states in United States have laws and legislationss similar to Federal Freedom of Information Act, usually called Open Records, Open Meetings, or Open Government . Alabama Freedom of Information is found in Al. Code §36-25A-1 et seq., called the Alabama Open Meetings Law, crated in 2005 and amended in 2015 that replaced the old "Sunshine Law", guarantees open access to agencies, boards, commissions, and governmental organizations who have interactions with the people.

Violation of the Alabama Open Meetings Law

  • Any Alabama citizen or public official such as an attorney general, a circuit's district attorney, or a media company can start a civil action in court. However, a member of the governmental body cannot bring suit against the others in that same group.
  • There could be a $1000 fine or half of a governmental salary (whichever is less) for each violation with minimum penalty at $1. Improperlly called executive session can also incur monetary penalties. Multiple violations from the same instances are grouped together in one case. A governmental organization can pay for the violations of its members including current members or former members.
  • If there is a violation with a complaint filed within 21 days then the court can invalidate any actions taken or decisons made in the meeting that violates the act.

    • Alabama Open Meetings Act 2015-340


    Alabama Public Records Law

    The Alabama Public Records Law as in Al. Code §36-12-40 states Alabama citizens have the right to inspect and copy public documents except as otherwise expressly provided by statute. 

    Alabama Open Records Act § 36-12-40 et seq.

     



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    The State's Names The etymology of the word or Names, Alabama, has evoked much discussion among philological researchers. It was the Names of a noted southern Indian tribe whose habitat when first known to Europeans was in what is now central Alabama. One of the major waterways in the state was named for this group and from this river, in turn, the Names of the state was derived. The tribal Names of Alabama was spelled in various ways by the early Spanish, French, and British chroniclers: Alabama, Albama, Alebamon, Alibama, Alibamou, Alibamon, Alabamu, and Allibamou. The appellation first occurs in three of the accounts of the Hernando de Soto expedition of 1540: written Alibamo by Garcillasso de la Vega, Alibamu by the Knight of Elvas, and Limamu by Rodrigo Ranjel (in the last form, the initial vowel is dropped and the first m is used for b, the interchange of these two consonants being common in Indian languages). The Names as recorded by these chroniclers was the Names of a subdivision of the Chickasaws, not the historic Alabamas of later times. The popular belief that Alabama signifies "Here We Rest" stems from an etymology given wide currency in the 1850s through the writings of Alexander Beauford Meek. However, the first known use of this derivation appeared earlier in an unsigned article in a July 27, 1842, issue of the Jacksonville Republican. Experts in the Muskogee dialect have been unable to find any word or phrase similar to Alabama with the meaning "Here We Rest." According to some investigations, the tribal Names Alabama must be sought in the Choctaw tongue, as it is not uncommon for tribes to accept a Names given them by a neighboring tribe. Inquiry among the early Indians themselves appears to have yielded no information about the meaning of the word. The Rev. Allen Wright, a Choctaw scholar, translated the Names as thicket clearers, compounded of Alba meaning "a thick or mass vegetation," and amo meaning "to clear, to collect, to gather up."





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