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...
