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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Gov. Kemp’s remarks on street gangs renews interest in report on repeat offenders
Some Atlanta residents who track crime are returning their attention to a report that portrays Fulton County judges as lenient on repeat offenders. Early criticism of the report dwelled on a perceived shortcoming of not being robust enough to inform a meaningful conversation of sentencing reform.
