Need to know how your representative voted? Want to know if he showed up for the vote? Who is your senator or representative, anyway? Alison has answers.

Alison is a nickname for Alabama Information System Online, a state-sponsored website.Trisha Powell Crain, executive director of Alabama School Connection, spends a lot of time tracking down information about the Alabama legislature and its members. She says Alison knows a lot but can be hard to talk to.

Below is Trisha’s video guide to finding information on the site.

Alabama School Connection is one of the partners already working with BirminghamWatch.

Stay tuned for important collaborations on education topics.   And you can find more education news now at www.alabamaschoolconnection.org. 

Trisha Powell Crain’s full bio can be found here.