Month: January 2019
SPECIAL EDUCATION STUDENTS AND SCHOOL DISCIPLINE
As this blog has discussed on previous occasions, students who qualify for special education have important rights that their local school district must respect. These rights are in place in order to ensure that, despite having special needs, these Mobile, Alabama, students can still have the opportunity for a quality education. For a variety of…
FORMER POLICE CHIEF FACING DRUG, OTHER CHARGES
A former police chief from another town in Alabama is facing serious legal trouble after being arrested on both drug and other charges that also supposedly involved the use of drugs. In the chief’s first case, authorities charged him with misdemeanor drug crimes after someone found marijuana and drug paraphernalia in the man’s duty cruiser. How authorities came…
PROFILE OF A VICTIM OF BULLYING
There is no one-size-fits-all description of a typical bullying victim, despite the fact that the entertainment media often portrays a victim as small and thin or, in the case of a girl, a person with a less than perfect figure or with some odd social quirks. The reality is, and it bears repeating often, that…
DIVORCES SPIKE IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY
There is some anecdotal evidence floating around in Mobile, Alabama, and the rest of the country which suggests that January is “Divorce Month,” with lots of couples going to the courthouse to ask for a divorce or a legal separation. One study, which may require some further analysis, suggests that there is some truth to this common…