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Civil-rights advocates tell Mobile County Commission to withhold funding, say courts facilitate unconstitutional child removals
Summary
Several civil-rights advocates told the Mobile County Commission on Oct. 27 that county funding helps courts and agencies remove children without due process; they served legal notice and urged the commission to withhold county funds, while commissioners said funding would continue at least through next month.
Civil-rights advocates told the Mobile County Commission on Oct. 27 that county budget allocations and local law-enforcement actions are facilitating unconstitutional arrests and child removals, and they served formal legal notice seeking county action.
Taniwa Downing, a litigator who said she represents people affected nationwide, told commissioners she has gathered about 17,000 affidavits alleging individuals were charged by information rather than by grand-jury indictment and said she is preparing litigation on behalf of hundreds of thousands of people. "I'm preparing to litigate this on behalf of more than 700,000 people that are currently imprisoned here in America illegally and constitutionally," Downing said, and she…
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