The Alabama Senate passed a bill today to put a limit on the money cities and towns can retain from traffic ticket fines, legislation that comes after reports of abuses by police in Brookside. The ...

Brookside, Alabama's population is barely 1,200 people, but officials decided that what the town really needed was more police. Now, fines and forfeitures make up half of the town's income in a ...

Brookside, Alabama, a former mining community of about 1,250 with a median household income less than $40,000, has no traffic lights and only a handful of two-lane roads, yet it raked in so much ...

The fallout over aggressive policing in the tiny Jefferson County town of Brookside continued Tuesday, as Alabama Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth asked for an official state audit of the town, its police ...

BROOKSIDE, Ala. — The police chief of a northern Alabama town resigned Tuesday amid allegations that he set up an aggressive traffic trap that by 2020 accounted for nearly half of the town’s revenue.

Michelle Jones made an official complaint to the Alabama Attorney’s General’s office three years ago, arguing that Brookside police stopped her out of jurisdiction, issued a bogus citation and ...

Brookside, Alabama, became a notorious speed trap after it hired a new police chief in 2018. The Birmingham Times reported that nearly half of Brookside's revenue in 2020 came from forfeitures and ...

Why is AL.com columnist John Archibald warning that people stay away from Brookside, a small Alabama town just outside Birmingham? Simple: the police. Brookside has only one commercial building, a ...

To block some of the state’s worst speed traps, Alabama last month adopted legislation that limits how much revenue cities can generate from traffic tickets, joining a handful of states with similar ...