Members of the advisory committee reviewing Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center were incorrectly exempted from filing ethics disclosure reports in what the City calls an “oversight.”
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Training center review resolution is filed; protesters take aim at neighboring parkland closure
A DeKalb County commissioner has formalized his call for more review and a racial injustice history lesson for Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center plan. Meanwhile, police say they are bracing for a July 23-30 “Week of Action” by the Defend the Atlanta Forest protest movement.
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DeKalb commissioner to call for deeper training center review, nominate new advisory committee member
DeKalb County Commissioner Ted Terry is planning a resolution calling for deeper review of Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center while nominating a replacement for a member of its advisory committee who was kicked off for criticizing the plan.
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64 groups and businesses sign on to oppose public safety training center ahead of City Council resolution
Sixty-four organizations and businesses have signed onto a “Decree of Nonsupport” for Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center plan as part of a City Council member’s intent to introduce an opposition resolution.
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Public safety training center committee touts accomplishments with no mention of construction secrecy
The advisory committee for Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center has issued its first community update after eight months of meetings, an email that touts its accomplishments while not mentioning such big issues as the start of pre-construction and secrecy debates.
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The public safety training center deserves a real public review
As the Atlanta public safety training center advisory committee presents another ridiculous soap opera episode of scrutinizing its own members more than the City’s secretive plan, the public shouldn’t fall for tuning out. For planners, this is no accident or failure; in a sham process, it’s a success beyond the wildest dreams of distraction to have the public fighting itself rather than questioning authorities.
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Officials fed up with training center secrecy release permit application, plan opposition resolution
Some elected officials fed up with the secrecy of Atlanta’s public safety training center planning have released its supposedly confidential site preparation permit application and reportedly are working on a City Council resolution opposing the project.
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Public safety training center committee attempts to remove skeptical member while construction remains secret
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 move and questions why the committee is not circulating information about the now secretive final site plan and construction permit applications.
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Public safety training center protests are followed by arrests, advisory group meeting cancellation
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.
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Public safety training center appears to be following permit requirements, but documents show official questions
Persistent complaints of unpermitted site work for Atlanta’s public safety training center appear to be unfounded – but are also how DeKalb County planning officials learned about work on the secretive project, according to documents obtained by SaportaReport.
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Public safety training center to have secret timelines, possible fence due to illegal protests
Atlanta public safety training center planners will keep construction timelines secret and may surround the future facility with an unwanted fence in response to lawbreaking protesters who are now under FBI and GBI investigation, officials say.
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Report sets stage for historic reuses at Atlanta public safety training center site
A new report on historic and cultural resources at the site of Atlanta’s public safety training center is important mostly for what’s between the lines. While finding little of significance, the report lays the groundwork for detail on reuse of the debris of a historic library and two stone buildings that apparently will flank a future public entrance on Key Road.
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Public safety training center committee’s media-talk ban is based on unenforced Athens-Clarke policy
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, internal emails reveal. But an Athens-Clarke spokesperson says that policy is not enforced and that its committee members talk freely to the press.
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Public safety training center advisory committee responds to debate with ban on members talking to media
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 announced a ban on members speaking to the media – a move one expert says likely violates First Amendment free-speech rights.
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Who should plan the park next to Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center?
Planning for Atlanta’s public safety training center is increasingly focused on adjacent parkland with no clear authority and no communication with groups who will include the green space in a South River Forest input process launching in January.
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Public safety training center plan looks at parkland; explosives site to move elsewhere
The Atlanta public safety training center’s planners’ responsiveness to local concerns — including a willingness to help design adjacent parkland — drew praise from an advisory committee at its November meeting. But one surprise change means an explosives detonation facility will be moved somewhere else to be determined.
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Public safety training center review committee begins testing its powers
Nicole Morado of DeKalb County’s Starlight Heights recalls the moment earlier this year when her community learned that Atlanta’s covertly planned public safety training center would be built on the neighboring Atlanta Prison Farm property.
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Public safety training center gets revised plan, call for broader environmental review
A revised, denser site plan for Atlanta’s public safety training center was revealed Oct. 26 to an advisory committee whose community members pressed for a broader pollution study and more information in general.
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Public safety training center review committee makes debut with transparency concerns
An advisory committee intended to finally provide community input into Atlanta’s controversial public safety training center had a rocky start Oct. 12 with transparency concerns.
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Lost graveyard of zoo animals at Prison Farm may get a memorial
A lost graveyard for zoo animals may be memorialized in perhaps the strangest outcome of the debate over the future of the former Atlanta Prison Farm.
