Brookside, Alabama, a former mining community of about 1,250, has no traffic lights and only a handful of two-lane roads, yet it raked in so much revenue from traffic fines and forfeitures in 2020, it amounted to almost half of its $1.2M municipal budget.
by charging high fines and fees for nonviolent offenses, sometimes leading to arrests when they went unpaid.
According to AL.com's investigation, Jones, who was hired in 2018, built a police department of 10 or more full-time and part-time officers to patrol Brookside's 6 miles of roads and 1 ½ mile jurisdiction along Interstate 22, a corridor between Birmingham and Memphis, Tennessee.
"Brookside will continue to cooperate with all appropriate authorities to ensure that a full investigation of these issues are completed," he said.Bill Dawson, a lawyer in Birmingham, said he's had about two dozen people contact him with allegations, but for years, many have been too reluctant to complain.
The office of state Attorney General Steve Marshall, a Republican, declined to comment Friday about the traffic stops in Brookside.that his office would look at legislative options to determine how to prevent towns from taking advantage of drivers passing through on highways, a problem lawmakers acknowledged is happening across the state.
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