Court fees; use of funds allocated to sheriff's office for expenditure further provided

Summary

The bill changes Alabama law so that fees collected for the sheriff’s fund can be spent at the sheriff’s direction for jail operations and other law‑enforcement activities of the sheriff’s office. It impacts sheriffs, jail administrators, and the public who pay the docket fees by giving the sheriff more flexibility in using those revenues. The goal is to let sheriffs support the full range of their duties with the fees that were previously limited to jail costs.

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