A federal lawsuit alleging that Atlanta Police Department officers unlawfully arrested a group of Black Lives Matter protesters in 2021 will proceed.
A journalist who was detained and pressured to delete video by police at Atlanta’s public safety training center site is preparing to sue.
Security for Atlanta’s public safety training center site is costing $41,500 a day, according to court documents.
The police detentions of two journalists covering Atlanta’s public safety training center protests are now in a national press-freedom violation database and have been condemned by a statewide journalism group.
The Atlanta City Council member pushing for a reuse plan for a police horse stable in Grant Park says landlord Georgia Power is open to such ideas as a public park – with the asterisk ...
The Atlanta Police Department is investigating its detention of a protest-documenting journalist that civil rights attorneys say violated the First Amendment.
Commentary by the Atlanta Police Department’s second-in-command about terrorism charges against public safety training center protesters could endanger First Amendment rights and open the City to lawsuits, two prominent civil rights attorneys say.
A total of 12 protesters were arrested in raids at Atlanta’s public safety training center site and adjacent forest that were previously publicized for five terrorism charges, a top Atlanta Police Department (APD) official has ...
Molotov cocktails and felled trees were among criminal tactics used last month in the destructive side of protests against Atlanta’s public safety training center and a DeKalb County parkland swap, police say.
Atlanta Police horses have been a Grant Park neighborhood fixture for years, and one City Council member hopes to keep it that way if the stables move to a new public safety training center.
Atlanta’s interim police chief now has the permanent job.
The week in local news.
The week in local news.
In July 1996, all eyes were on Atlanta. Twenty-six years ago, the city held the 1996 Olympics, hosting 10,000 athletes from 197 countries to compete in 271 events. The games attracted two million visitors with ...
Peter Aman has been named to the new position of chief administrative officer for the Atlanta Police Department, tasked with modernizing and coordinating the force.
This week 86 years ago, one of north Georgia’s greatest beauties — known today as the Chattahoochee National Forest — was established by President Franklin Roosevelt. Before this, the forest and its wildlife suffered greatly ...
The advisory committee for Atlanta’s public safety training center has started a legally questionable process of kicking off a member for publicly criticizing its work. The DeKalb County official who appointed that member opposes the ...
Atlanta's assistant police chief has been named the department's interim leader by Mayor Andre Dickens while a permanent search continues.
Several days of intensified protests against Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center culminated May 17 in several trespassing arrests at the site and the no-notice cancellation of a community review committee’s meeting.
Police and prosecutors are discussing new crackdown tactics on Atlanta’s so-called water boys, including banishment and targeting of parents and guardians.
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