Alabama
A Wetumpka, Ala., community member reported that the school district was organizing, promoting and encouraging attendance to a religious prayer walk event. A post on Wetumpka Elementary School’s official Facebook page detailed the event, explaining that attendees would “pray for our school faculty, staff, students and community” as they prepared for the 2024-2025 school year.
“The district must immediately end its participation in this prayer walk event and cease organizing, promoting and encouraging attendance at religious events going forward,” FFRF Staff Attorney Chris Line wrote to Superintendent Richard E. Dennis.
Dennis contacted FFRF via email to clear up the situation. “I reviewed the posting from the Wetumpka Elementary School website that you shared in your letter and, out of an abundance of caution, I directed the school administration in the future not to include it on the school’s website to avoid any confusion about the origin of the event,” he wrote.
