Attorney General Steve Marshall

AG Steve Marshall Achieves Reconsideration of Federal Rules that Excessively Restrict Property Owners’ Use of Land

 Attorney General Steve Marshall announced today that, in light of a lawsuit filed by Alabama and joined by 19 States, the federal government has agreed to reconsider rules adopted during the Obama administration that restrict property owners’ use of land. In 2016, federal agencies adopted two new rules that allowed the federal government to designate land as “critical habitat” for…

Former Jefferson County District Attorney To Serve Six Months in Jail

Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that former Jefferson County District Attorney Charles Todd Henderson today received a two-year sentence, which was suspended for a term of six months in jail followed by 12 months of probation.  Henderson was convicted of first-degree perjury on October 20, 2017.  Henderson was elected District Attorney in 2016, but due to his indictment in January…

AG Steve Marshall Announces Establishment of Cybercrime Lab and Partnership to Combat Cybercrimes

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall was joined by U.S. Attorney Louis Franklin and officials with the U.S. Secret Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations, the Alabama Fusion Center and the Alabama Office of Prosecution Services in announcing the establishment of a Cybercrime Lab in the Attorney General’s Office to assist all levels of law…

Authorities Break Up Drug Ring in Selma

From the West Alabama Newsroom– Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies break up a drug ring in Selma and put eleven suspected drug dealers behind bars. Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrests Wednesday afternoon at the Dallas County Courthouse. He says the arrests came after a seventeen month joint investigation led by the DEA. And he says evidence…