A newly released video of University of West Alabama dean of students Byron Thetford shows Thetford admitting to searching for loopholes to fund DEI programming.

"We can't directly fund DEI programming, so we have been looking for loopholes," Thetford said.

Last year, Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law a ban on taxpayer resources from funding DEI offices and training in Alabama public universities, schools and agencies.

The video, posted by Accuracy in Media, appears to be from a job interview.

"So, part of this position would be working with some of that," Thetford said. "We have some funds through our PBI grant that we would like to dedicate to that, and then we do still have a chief, we have somebody who is serving – which, I have to be careful – we have somebody who is serving as our

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