ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! ATTACK! — For several years, Charlotte Bell, an Inglewood woman who has admitted, yea, boasted in City Council and other public meetings to being a felon convicted on drug charges, has had free and unfettered access to Inglewood school campuses, much to the dismay of school district administrators, the district’s former police chief, parents and community leaders. The situation reached a crisis last Nov. 12, when “An Open Letter for the Inglewood Unified School District Acting Superintendent,” Kenneth Crowe, was sent to him and circulated in the city. Excerpts read as follows:

“Today, and almost everyday, this woman, Charlotte Bell is on the campus. Why is Charlotte Bell allowed to visit and hang out on this campus with our students at City Honors? Today and almost everyday, she is here. She is constantly on the Inglewood Unified School District’s school campus. She parks her car in the handicapped parking space and roams the campus. Who is responsible for the safety of the children here? Why is she allowed to roam this school’s campus? She was jailed for selling drugs and she admits it openly. She sold drugs to kids. She is a known felon and. … Is she selling drugs to our kids and trying to make them gang bangers? … Many of the kids are threatened, intimidated and afraid for their life. …This school is not safe. Our kids are not safe here at City Honors.

“She brags and tells people that she has two [school] board members, Arnold Butler and Johnny Young, in her back pocket. Why do they not care? We have reported this on several occasions, but the school district and principal ignores the safety of our kids. … We send our kids here to learn, not to be worried and distracted when they see this person on their campus. … The principal constantly lies about her being on campus. Today is a perfect example. We are requesting an investigation of Charlotte Bell and demand that the city of Inglewood Police Department and FBI be brought in to investigate Charlotte Bell. Why are Arnold Butler and Johnny Young failing to protect the kids of this district and exactly what is their connection with this convicted drug dealer and known … Selling drugs on this campus and making kids gang bangers is wrong.” The letter is signed Concerned and Frightened Parents and Students.

I have a copy of an e-mail written by Charlotte Bell to an Inglewood resident on Jan. 3. It is a rambling thing that begins: “Oh, did Cresia tell you? [Former IUSD board president Cresia Green Davis, a fellow felon who was convicted of welfare fraud and lying about her credentials] I woke up to Dr. Crowe. He tried to remove me from the City Honors campus. If it had not been for Mr. [Arnold] Butler, he would have succeeded. You never know who will give you your last drink of water!!!” Bell then proceeds to implicate herself in a tire-cutting incident at the school district in her rambling e-mail, which ends with, “I am supporting Mr. Butler and Trina Williams [for re-election]. … God bless you, Bell.”

Crowe said he had, indeed, received numerous complaints from parents about Bell’s presence on school campuses and said he has tried to have her removed, including having called police and directing police to get her out of there. He said City Honors Principal Thelma Brown has never forthrightly answered his questions as to why Bell is on the campus. “I don’t know why she’s there. No one has ever informed administration that she is involved in any kind of educational activity, either as an instructor or a consultant. I kept her off my campus when I was a principal,” Crowe said.

By the way, when Crowe was a high school principal in Inglewood, he interfaced with Bell’s son, who is now serving a stint in state prison for multiple rape convictions.

The main area of friction between former IUSD Police Chief Kevin Scroggins and Butler and Young stemmed from the fact that the duo blocked and interfered with the chief’s investigations into the backgrounds of school district personnel. In a complaint to the district attorney last year, Scroggins — whose official title was director of safety and security and emergency planning — wrote: “Every investigation conducted by school police has been challenged by Butler and Young. I have two security officers currently working at one of our schools [who] have been convicted of possession and sales of cocaine because they are friends of these two board members. They continue to block and interfere with the investigation.” He asked for the D.A.’s assistance in dealing with these two school board members. He didn’t get it and he quit.

What’s the deal with this Bell woman? Why is a woman of her nefarious background — or any background for that matter — enabled by Butler, Young and Councilwoman Judy Dunlap (who spoke to the school board on Bell’s behalf) to roam Inglewood’s campuses doing God knows what over the vehement objections of parents and administrators? Bell needs to be shown off those campuses and Butler and Young need to be thrown off that school board.

Coda: Butler and Williams’ self-endorsement letter (which they’ve now removed from IUSD letterhead), was sent to all the district’s employees, who regard the letter as another attempt to intimidate them. Also, troops, I hear that Young, who loves to write, distributed a letter in which he attacked Board President Carol Raines-Brown and her little boy. I want that letter. And so does a lawyer I know.

CENTURY MARK — A celebration of the NAACP’s centennial and of the Los Angeles NAACP’s birthday will be held Feb. 19 at the Oceanside Warehouse Restaurant, 4949 Admiralty Way in Marina Del Rey from 6 to 9 p.m. In addition to marking the NAACP’s 100th anniversary, the occasion also serves as a coming out event for Leon Jenkins, the Los Angeles chapter’s new president. … The mayor hosted a reception Thursday morning at Getty House to commemorate the NAACP’s century of achievements. … Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas and the Board of Supervisors observed Black History Month Tuesday by recognizing the Los Angeles County NAACP chapters. Bishop Charles E. Blake joined the board in honoring the Altadena, Antelope Valley, Beverly Hills/Hollywood, Carson/Torrance, Compton, Inglewood/South Bay, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley and Santa Monica NAACP chapters.

TAPPED — Assembly Speaker Karen Bass appointed the following local Assembly members to chair some key standing committees: Hector De La Torre, Accountability and Administrative Review; Bonnie Lowenthal, Aging and Long-Term Care; Kevin DeLeon, Appropriations; Mike Davis, Arts, Entertainment, Tourism and Internet Media; Julia Brownley, Education; Warren Furutani, Elections, Redistricting and Constitutional Amendments, and Curren Price, Governmental Organization.

AND FINALLY — While the recording industry was busy handing out Grammy awards Sunday, I had the unexpected pleasure of getting a “Back to the Old Landmark” Award from the L.A. Chapter of the Gospel Music Workshop of America Inc., the organization founded by the late gospel icon, the Rev. James Cleveland. Even though I knew Rev. Cleveland well from the moment he moved to Los Angeles until his death (yeah, I’m an old landmark!), the highlight for me of the joyous, jam-packed event was being reunited with singer/actor Mel Carter, who was a fellow “landmark” award winner with whom I used to hang back in the days when growing up in South Los Angeles was good and safe and carefree.