MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Alabama has agreed not to enforce a provision of its controversial immigration law that required state officials to publish a list of people known to be unlawfully in the country.<br />
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Lawyers say they have reached a settlement agreement in the lawsuit challenging what critics called a "scarlet letter list."<br />
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The 2012 law required officials to publish a list of people living in the state illegally who have been arrested.<br />
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However, Alabama told the court last year that it had no intention of publishing the list after being warned by federal officials it was a misuse of confidential information.<br />
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The Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit in 2013 on behalf of four people from Mexico who had been arrested for fishing without a license.
