A special Black History Month event was held Wednesday by the British Consulate General Atlanta and The Empowerment Workshop. British Consul General Rachel Galloway hosted an intimate setting of more than 60 guests at her residence. The evening featured Rita Daniels, the great-great-great grandniece of Harriet Tubman. Tenor soloist Timothy Miller, who has performed with […]
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Willis thanks Fulton County voters for election win
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis will remain in office for another four years. Willis said that she is thankful to voters in Fulton County for trusting her to continue her work and will continue to seek justice for the community. “Fulton County, thank you for trusting me with the honor of serving as your […]
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From Trump to ‘Stop Cop City,’ a historic week in answering who runs Atlanta
What a week for fans of history and democracy in Atlanta. First, former President Trump was indicted on Aug. 14 for, among other things, attempting to “find” roughly 12,000 votes in his scheme to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Then “Vote to Stop Cop City” announced it gathered more than 104,000 signatures to allow a […]
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Fulton DA’s call for journalists to testify in Trump investigation raises legal, ethical dilemmas
Grand jury testimony is a legal and ethical quagmire for journalists – the stuff of Supreme Court cases and a Georgia reporters’ shield law – and this case is worthy of far more public discussion.
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In effort to track repeat offenders, Fulton D.A. faces backlog of 1.6M felony records
Behind this week’s announcement of an Atlanta-Fulton County “Repeat Offender Tracking Unit” is an effort to fix enormous criminal-record data gaps about such offenders. Maybe the biggest: a staggering backlog of 1.6 million felony-charge outcomes, not yet properly recorded, that has left repeat offenders underreported and many acquitted people still wrongly in the system.
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Buckhead crime task force focuses on gang problem, but data has holes
Created by the City Council to satisfy one neighborhood’s myopic fixation with its crime rate, the Buckhead Public Safety Task Force is unsurprisingly zooming out to focus on statewide and national causes, to wit: gangs.
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Fulton voters oust DA
The incumbent sheriff looks like he’s on the way out too.
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Fulton DA faces two former deputies in election
The DA has a big role in shaping and changing criminal justice policy.
