Lee County

Just last year, 48,000 parents here in the state applied for to take part in the CHOOSE Act program, which is when the state creates an education savings account for a student and then allocates thousands of dollars to that account so that the student and parents can enroll their child in the school of their choice, whether it's public, private, or homeschooling.

The incoming sheriff for Lee County is promising to end contracts with flock cameras in that county.

Cam Hunt recently won the Republican primary against incumbent sheriff Jay Jones.

Hunt is running unopposed by a Democrat candidate in the November election, so that means he will automatically take office at the start of 2027.

Hunt now says that when he does take office, he will terminate the Lee County Sheriff's Department's contract with Flock Safety.

And Hunt said the reasons are more than just the abuse of the data by some of the law enforcement officers, but it's also about Flock Safety being a third-party private corporation that is holding all the information that the government is seeking to obtain on Alabamians through this surveillance system.

Hunt said he knows that the license plate readers have had legitimate applications and he has no intention of dismissing this type of technology altogether.

Obviously, he is suing the NCAA.

He'll look for his temporary restraining order on Friday in a Lee County court.

But then Colby King, the fifth-year guard from Utah State, is eligible as of today.

But as Stephen Pearl brought up, maybe Monday when they go back to court about that, he won't be eligible again.

Ledbetter did not provide a response to that question.

An ethics complaint was filed within the Alabama Ethics Commission by the Lee County Sheriff-elect, Cam Hunt.

The filing occurred this past July, shortly after Hunt defeated the incumbent sheriff, Jay Jones, in the Republican primary that was held this past May.

Hunt is unopposed in the upcoming November election, so he will assume the office of sheriff at the start of next year.

This complaint from Hunt is against the Lee County Sheriff's Office for placing vehicle tracking technology around his house.

Hunt says that the Verizon Fleet GPS system was used to monitor his home rather than used for legitimate purposes in helping with deputy patrols.

He says the geo-fence was set up by the sheriff's office in order to monitor who was coming and going to Hunt's house, including other sheriff's deputies who might have been communicating with Hunt during his campaign to challenge the incumbent sheriff.

I wonder if it's one of those Greyhounds or one of those southern coaches or something like that, that you can't open the window.

Is it a Lee County school bus maybe?

I would...

That's what I would do.

You know, it's not, it's not as if what Tommy Tuberville said is dragging the ticket down.

I mean, I'm sure it is in like Lee County and Auburn and Tuscaloosa County, with Tuscaloosa and maybe the Birmingham suburbs, but-

Sure

... everywhere else it's, it's not.

The last thing I'm going to get on here and want to do is defend Alabama.

Yeah, we're from Lee County, buddy.

They've gotten a lot of calls in the past.

That's the last thing.

The difference between Auburn and Alabama, and I'm, I, I'm wearing a Barner shirt, man.

Like, I, I'm born and raised in Lee County.

Kurt Crane was my father.

Sure.

Yeah, now we're getting to the-

Christy, you know the one thing? It just, with Auburn it just seems like that offensive linemen don't like to live in Lee County.

That's all I can figure out.

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That are really talented linemen.

Right.

And they're stopping somewhere before they get to Lee County.

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