Alabama says to diploma mill: not in our back yard! (to unlicensed alternative medicine schools)

Lloyd Clayton of Birmingham, Alabama operates a number of diploma mills(*). Included are the Clayton School of Natural Healing, Chadwick University, and the American Holistic College of Nutrition. (Clayton also sells "Dr. Clayton's herbals and homeopathics.") Although the Clayton schools' operate in Alabama, they are not licensed there. Alabama's Department of Education attempted to close Clayton down in 1981, but Clayton fought it legally. The State Attorney General opined that the "schools" would not be required to be licensed if they offered no programs to Alabama citizens. [Joe Miller, Private School Licensure Section, Alabama Dept of Education, letter …