Digmon;Fore;Jakson;Fletcher v. Billy;Jackson;Odom;Durden;Rabren:Lowry

Complete record of Civil Case No. 1:24-cv-425

INTRODUCTION

1. A local political dispute over whether to retain a school superintendent

ended with two school-board members, the school’s payroll supervisor, and a local

journalist in jail. None of them committed any crimes. But that didn’t stop Escambia

County’s top law-enforcement officials from abusing their offices to punish anyone they

thought stood in the way of extending the superintendent’s contract.

2. District Attorney Stephen Billy and Escambia County Sheriff Heath Jackson

both took an unusual personal interest in School Superintendent Michele McClung’s

tenure. The two men decided...

 
 
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