15 years in office. Dozens of missed votes.
$74,143 she failed to pay in taxes. Two failed campaigns.
One question: who is she fighting for?
She has missed or abstained from dozens of critical votes on public safety, veterans' benefits, children's protections, and working families.
While her colleagues voted, District 60 had no voice. Fifteen years in office. A pattern that doesn't add up to representation — it adds up to an empty chair.
She publicly backed legislation from Republican Rep. Reed Ingram of Pike Road that would let the governor and attorney general appoint Birmingham's police chief — stripping the city of its right to govern its own police force.
Her own Birmingham colleagues opposed the bill. She backed it anyway.
...the Governor, in consultation with the Attorney General, may appoint an interim Chief of Police for any municipality designated as having an extraordinary rate of violent crime, and said interim Chief shall report directly to the Office of the Governor, not to the elected municipal authority...
Sec. 2(a) — draft text, paraphrased
She sponsored HB 289, a body-camera bill she called landmark. Then her own fellow Democrat, Senator Merika Coleman, said publicly that the bill made it harder for families to access police footage — not easier.
The family of Jabari Peoples said her law was an obstacle to justice. A weeks-long standoff over withheld body-camera footage of his death made the cost real.
She keeps running for higher office — instead of doing the job she has.
Ran for a U.S. House seat in a district she didn't live in. Finished fifth.
Signed a lease on a city apartment one day before announcing. Finished third — 1,395 votes.
"The women of Birmingham
were atrocious. Mean
and nasty and so dismissive."
That's how much Juandalynn Givan failed to pay in federal taxes — enough that the IRS filed a federal tax lien against her on March 4, 2022, in Jefferson County Probate Court. She wants to keep managing your tax dollars.
While District 60 deals with blight — while people don't feel safe on their own porch — Juandalynn Givan is on Facebook Live.
Building her brand. Chasing the next spotlight. She's been in office fifteen years.
What do we have to show for it?
New leadership for District 60.