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This week on Making Contact, we bring you a story from our podcast partners, 70 Million titled Highway Robbery: How a Small-Town Traffic Trap Became A Legal Black Hole. About 20 minutes north of Birmingham, Alabama, on Interstate 22, is the working-class town of Brookside. Its almost 1300 residents make it about the size of a large high school. According to the 2020 census, Brookside's population is mostly White and 21% are Black. On paper, it's a lot like other small towns in this part of Alabama. That is, until 2022, when Brookside became infamous for, of all things, a traffic trap.

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John Archibald, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist - Sandra Harris - Town Hall Speaker 1 - Ashley - Leah Nelson, research director for the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice - Bill Dawson, a criminal, and civil rights lawyer from Birmingham - Adam Danneman, the head of the Public Defender's office in Jefferson County - Joanna Weiss\xa0

70 Million Staff:

Episode Reporter: Rhana Natour
Editor: Monica Lopez and Juleyka Lantigua
Host: Mitzi Miller
Sound Designer: Erica Huang
Photo Editor: Michelle Baker
Staff Writer and Designer: Kori Doran
Lead Fact Checker: Haylee Millikan
Lead Producer: Pamela Kirkland
Episode Photographer: Amarr Croskey
Creator/Executive Producer: Juleyka Lantigua

Making Contact Staff:

Hosts:\xa0 Anita Johnson
Producers: Anita Johnson, Salima Hamirani, Amy Gastelum, and Lucy Kang
Executive Director: Jina Chung
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