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Mobile County board weighs cameras and requests to restore prayer in schools amid legal warnings
Summary
A board member urged cameras in all classrooms and sought to return prayer to schools, citing a campus incident; board counsel and the superintendent warned that organized classroom prayer raises First Amendment and litigation risks and directed staff to research legal ramifications.
A Mobile County Public Schools board member urged the board to install cameras in all classrooms and to place restoring prayer in schools on a future agenda, saying classroom video had been “very instrumental” in helping law enforcement after an incident the speaker identified as at "Ella Grande." Speaker 5 told the board, "I would love to have cameras put in all the classrooms," and asked that prayer be afforded to students as it is for board meetings.
Board legal counsel and the superintendent cautioned that organized prayer in public school classrooms…
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