Nortasha Johnson is among a number of current or former Valley residents either arrested or prosecuted for failing to pay their trash bills. A judge dismissed the case against her Wednesday following a motion from Johnson’s lawyers with the splcenter.
An Alabama judge on Wednesday dismissed the case against a 49-year-old woman charged with not paying her $85 trash bill.
Chambers County Circuit Court Judge M. Calvin Milford Jr., dismissed the case against Johnson on Wednesday, a week after Johnson’s lawyers with the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a motion to throw out the case, court records showed. “Ms. Jackson lives well below the federal poverty line during normal times. She was under even greater financial strain during the summer of 2022, when the City initiated this case, because she was acting as the primary caregiver for her two grandchildren, her cousin, and her cousin’s two children,” the motion stated. “Because she could not afford to pay her trash bill, prosecuting her for nonpayment violates her constitutional rights...
Valley violated the Eighth Amendment against excessive bail and Little’s Fourteenth Amendment right to due process by being “imprisoned for failing to pay a garbage collection fee, and by continuing to be threatened with imprisonment for failure to pay the fee,” the suit contended.
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