Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall hosted the 25th Annual Attorney General’s Law Enforcement Summit on Tuesday in Birmingham. The state’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer said that the yearly event is a chance for officers and prosecutors to fellowship while advancing their efforts to serve Alabamians.
“It is always a privilege to gather with law enforcement officers from across our state to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing our communities,” Marshall reflected. “The Summit is like a family reunion. It’s an important occasion to reflect on the year behind us and look ahead to the future, as we dedicate ourselves to a common mission: making Alabama the safest state in the nation.”
This year’s training at The Summit emphasized the office’s dedication to consumer protection enforcement, the anti-human trafficking alliance, and the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit in combatting abuse and exploitation in nursing homes.
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Participants heard about the power of investigative genetic genealogy by Chief Genetic Genealogists, CeCe Moore and forensic DNA testing advances in the state by Dr. Jason Kokoszka from the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences. Keynote speakers for the event were the co-hosts of The Prosecutors: A True Crime Podcast, Alice LaCour and Brett Talley. They discussed lessons from the Karen Read case.
Additionally, the training highlighted the office’s commitment to consumer protection enforcement presented by Assistant Attorney General Michael Dean. Listeners heard Assistant Attorney General Bruce Liberman from the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit on efforts combatting abuse and exploitation in nursing homes and the Office’s Alabama Anti-Human Trafficking Alliance coordinator, Katie Beth McCarthy.
Marshall also held a memorial for fallen officer Deputy Sheriff Jermyius Young of the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office who lost his life in the line of duty in the last year.
Austen Shipley is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on X @ShipleyAusten
