We should have had body cameras on Atlanta police officers by now. The police were ready to buy them last summer. But problems with Atlanta’s procurement contract have now exploded into a lawsuit that may delay implementation until next year. The contract has been bid out twice now. The city prepared to offer a $1.3 million contract to
An annexation proposal by State Representative Howard Mosby (D-Atlanta) would redraw the map of Atlanta to include several neighborhoods along the Memorial Drive corridor. HB 706 has … somehow … already had two legislative readings, meaning it could be presented to local legislative committees for consideration. Mosby told Decaturish yesterday that 911 response time drives
Tonight, Rise Up Georgia and Black Lives Matter activists will begin camping out at the DeKalb County courthouse in Decatur, awaiting the decision of a grand jury looking into the police shooting of Anthony Hill last year. It’ll be 19 degrees tonight on the courthouse steps, with a high of 41 on Tuesday. It will be raining most of
Audits should be boring. Audit committees should be extra boring. In DeKalb, not so much. Last month, State Sen. Gloria Butler unceremoniously ganked the DeKalb senate delegation’s appointee to a county audit oversight committee, telling the AJC that Harmel Codi appears to have “an agenda,” and “we want someone on the committee who has the agenda
