Code of Alabama
Ala. Code § 16-28-19 (2026)
Attendance Districts.
✓ official Alabama Legislature (ALISON) text, current July 2026
The county board of education shall arrange the county, exclusive of cities, into one or more attendance districts, and said board shall appoint an attendance officer for every district created, who shall hold his office at the will of the county board of education, and the board of education of each city having a city board of education shall appoint one or more attendance officers to serve at the pleasure of the appointing board. City and county boards of education and county commissions may jointly employ any person or persons to carry out the provisions of this chapter and such additional duties as may be assigned them by such boards or county commissions.
(School Code 1927, §317; Code 1940, T. 52, §314.)
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases, 1978–2006 · leading case: Glass v. Anniston City Bd. of Educ., 957 So. 2d 1143 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006).
Glass v. Anniston City Bd. of Educ., 957 So. 2d 1143 (Ala. Civ. App. 2006). “In affirming the hearing officer's decision, the trial court's judgment states that *1151 the FDA does not apply to Glass as an attendance officer and, therefore, that she was an at-will employee pursuant to § 16-28-19. The judgment further states that, even if the FDA applies…”
Phillips v. Beasley, 78 F.R.D. 207 (N.D. Ala. 1978). “…to provide consolidated high schools (§ 16-26-2); the option to employ jointly attendance (or truant) officers (§ 16-28-19); the interim retention of control by the county board of schools located in areas annexed to the city (§ 16-8-20); the preclusion of the city’s…”
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