The man controversially arrested while filming police from a car at Atlanta’s public safety training center last month claims he was working as a journalist. The police claim he was performing “countersurveillance” for an “extremist ...
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.
I’m proud to announce the debut of the Stanley Suppression Awards for Georgia’s worst attempts to stifle First Amendment activity and cloud government transparency.
The Atlanta Police Department is investigating its detention of a protest-documenting journalist that civil rights attorneys say violated the First Amendment.
By John Ruch Concerns about biased policing of public safety training center protests sparked by remarks from the Atlanta Police Department’s (APD) second-in-command fit into a bigger picture that includes a pending lawsuit alleging illegal ...
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.
With a newly elected Georgia General Assembly set to meet in January, it’s not too early to start warning it away from the kind of First Amendment assault we saw in last year’s session.
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 ...
An attempt by the chair of the Atlanta public safety training center’s advisory committee to ban other members from speaking to the media is based on an Athens-Clarke County government policy posted on a website, ...
News of Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center getting a final site plan was hard to hear over the sound of political tensions bursting at a January Community Stakeholder Advisory Committee (CSAC) meeting. The chair ...
More transparency is needed for Georgia’s cityhood movements and development authorities -- but not for the General Assembly itself, two state lawmakers said at a Jan. 27 open-government event.
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