Prattville resident claims the city illegally provides healthcare benefits to part-time lawyers
Concerns Over Part-Time Lawyers’ Healthcare Benefits in Plattville For over two years, Gerald Cimis, a resident of Plattville, has been alerting the City Council about potential legal issues stemming from the city providing healthcare benefits to part-time lawyers. Cimis warns that the city might be “playing Russian roulette.” He argues that if a catastrophic insurance […]
Lawsuit involving Prattville library advances
Activity in Litigation Against Autauga-Prattville Public Library Policies After several months of little movement, there has been notable progress in the legal battle concerning the restrictive policies at the Autauga-Prattville Public Library. By October 2024, US District Judge Myron Thompson had received a complete overview of the case, involving the Alliance of Appl Patrons, Free […]
Prattville library board committee urges director to move books under new policies
“The Book of Pronouns,” “Being You: First Conversations About Gender,” “Yes! no! “First Conversations About Consent,” “Bye Bye His Binary,” and “Red: A Crayon Story” – all of these books will be reviewed and appropriately shelved by the former Autauga’s Platteville Public Library Board. It turns out that. This decision was supposed to be ironclad. […]
National anti-censorship groups call for reversal of Prattville Library policies
PEN America, Read Freely Alabama, and EveryLibrary, the national censorship coalition, on Tuesday told the Autauga-Platteville Library Board that all children's and young adult books related to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and related issues They called for the new policy banning the ban to be rescinded. The groups called the new policy discriminatory and […]
Baldwin County children’s author suggests Prattville policies as model for local libraries
The newly formed Platteville Library Board changed its policy last Thursday, including banning LGBTQ content aimed at minors, and other groups are taking notice. Karin Wellhausen Tanks, a member of the Facebook group Faith, Family and Freedom Coalition, shared with the group an article from the far-right website 1819 News detailing the library's policy changes, […]
Her law firm wanted to sue the Prattville library. Now, she represents it.
The Autauga-Platteville Library Board has never faced a lawsuit, and two of its biggest critics have made it clear to the board that they have no standing to sue. Now, one of them has rewritten the board's policy in a way that invites legal challenges and has hired himself to defend it. On August 3, […]
Prattville Library Board member resigns over new policies, potential “secret meetings”
Christie Sellers has completed her term as director of the Autauga-Platteville Public Library just over two months after her appointment. In the resignation letter sent by the seller to: post On Thursday, he cited new policies the board plans to adopt and the possibility that the board is holding “secret meetings” as reasons for his […]
Prattville library board installs new officers
The five brand new members of the Autauga-Platteville Public Library Board met for the first time Thursday in an emergency meeting to elect officers. Four of the five members of the board were appointed by the Autauga County Commission, and each of those four members was appointed an officer. Christie Sellers, who was appointed by […]