A screen capture shows Fayette County School Board Chair Warner Speakman gesturing to a Sheriff's deputy in the doorway as Lamar Hobson speaks during public comment at a school board meeting on April 9, 2025. (Fayette County Public Schools)

At a Fayette County School Board meeting in April, Lamar Hobson decided he’d had enough.

He had unanswered questions about the school system’s proposed budget, which was being put together without the involvement of a finance director. The district has been without one for several months.

Before he could start speaking during public comment, Board Chair Warner Speakman cut him off. “I’m gonna ask you. Are you from this county? … Do you vote here?”

“You go up to the courthouse and check. I’m on the register,” Hobson, a 1981 graduate of Fayette-Ware H

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