Anna Barrett

4 days ago | alabamareflector.com | Anna Barrett |Anna Barrett

After an Alabama House committee failed to move a bill requiring local school boards to adopt a policy on released time religious instruction (RTRI), Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth took his disappointment to social media.

1 week ago | alabamareflector.com | Alander Rocha |Anna Barrett

The Alabama Legislature ground to a halt on Wednesday afternoon amid a dispute between the Alabama House and a senator over a gambling bill for Greene County. The stand-off on the next-to-last legislative day of the session punctuated a tense day in the chambers that saw another filibuster on a bill that would change the governance of the Alabama Department of Archives and History and two Republican representatives getting into a shouting match on the House floor.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Alander Rocha |Anna Barrett

Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro (left) looks at the phone of Senate President Pro Tem Garlan Gudger, R-Cullman, on the floor of the Alabama Senate on May 7, 2025 at the Alabama Statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama. The Senate saw two filibusters on Wednesday: one from Sen.

1 month ago | alabamareflector.com | Anna Barrett |Anna Barrett

by Anna Barrett, Alabama Reflector April 7, 2025 A Senate committee approved a bill on Wednesday that restricts when, where and how a group can picket and protest. SB 247, sponsored by Sen. Arthur Orr, R-Decatur, prohibits protesters from using noise amplifiers, being too close to the residence of the subject of the protest 30 minutes after sunset and 30 minutes before sunrise, and from blocking roads for the protest. Orr filed similar legislation in the previous two legislative sessions.