Kelsea Bond 🌹

📢 Speak out for Diversion on Monday at City Hall! 📢

Join me at City Hall Monday for a press conference at 11:30AM in support of my first resolution, 26-R-3234, to expand diversion services ahead of the World Cup! Head inside afterwards to sign up for public comment.

Community Response Training Join Councilmember Kelsea Bond for a District 2 workshop on how you can support your neighbors and take care of your community. Event Location: Little 5 Points Community Center, Shifalo Room (entra...

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Join us tomorrow at the Little 5 Points Community Center!

Love this attitude coming out of Fulton County! We can’t keep expanding the carceral system endlessly. We need to use every tool in the book to LOWER the jail’s population using diversion, increasing court staffing, and expanding mental health and housing services.

If anyone has questions beyond the pro-TAD propaganda numbers the city keeps releasing: only 18% of housing generated by TADs since 2014 was below 50% AMI, less than 10% below 30% AMI. This data is from Invest Atlanta.

My diversion resolution passed PSLA Committee today! On to the full Council meeting next Monday.

One of my goals of this Council term is to hold debate & discussion in a way that’s open and accessible to the public. You deserve that. If we can afford hours of proclamations on taxpayer time we can afford *minutes* of discussion, debate and Q&A.

Atlanta Councilmember Kelsea Bond: ‘I’d really like to change the culture of city council’ Atlanta City Councilmember Kelsea Bond made history last month as the chamber’s first Democratic Socialist, building off momentum from years as a community activist. The District 2 councilmember is kn...

Hear me talk Beltline Rail, the TADs, transparency, and democracy on Closer Look WABE with Rose Scott! 👇 www.wabe.org/atlanta-coun...

Beltline Rail Kickoff Canvass Join us for Beltline Rail Canvassing! We'll speak with neighbors and residents about Beltline Rail, affordable social housing, and taxing the rich.

We can’t keep kicking the can down the road on public transit. We need to invest in rail now, and build the willpower to make it happen! actionnetwork.org/events/beltl...

Let’s get Atlanta back on track with BELTLINE RAIL! 🚊🛤️

Join @atldemsoc this Saturday to speak with neighbors and residents about the future of green public transit in Atlanta!

Sign up to canvass with us this Saturday 2/11 at 1pm! RSVP at atldsa.org/railcanvass 🔗

Then there will be a public record that they ignored the will of city council 😇

Yes, thank you I am aware of that. Lol. That is why being very public about our commitments is important for accountability.

It’s live!

We can’t continue criminalizing poverty, homelessness, and mental illness. Instead, let’s fight for compassionate forms of public safety, and justice for all Atlantans — not just the wealthy who stand to profit from international events.

This resolution calls on APD to utilize the Center for Diversion Services to the greatest extent possible for eligible cases and to report data on the diversion to arrest ratio to City Council on a regular basis.

On average, only about three individuals per day are diverted to the CDS, even though the facility can serve 41 people at a time. Far too many eligible cases are not being diverted.

Since opening the Center for Diversion Services last year, data indicate that diversion referrals remain far below capacity. The CDS is a 24/7 facility designed to provide a safe, immediate alternative to arrest for individuals suffering from health needs or extreme poverty.

What’s happening at the jail is a human rights crisis and it’s morally imperative we leverage every tool to reduce the jail population. This means stepping up our use of pre-arrest diversion.

In 2023, the Fulton Jail was found by the U.S. Dept of Justice to be in violation of the constitutional rights of incarcerated people, resulting in a federal consent decree in 2025.

Ahead of hosting the World Cup this summer, this resolution calls for Atlanta to significantly step up its use of pre-arrest diversion as a way to curb unnecessary arrests and address the ongoing overcrowding crisis at the Fulton County Jail.

🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Councilmember Kelsea Bond Introduces Resolution to Expand Diversion, Reduce Jail Overcrowding Ahead of World Cup

Today I am proud to announce my first piece of legislation to be introduced at today’s Full City Council February 16th meeting at 1pm.

Fulton audit to see if commercial property owners pay their share of taxes Fulton’s top elected official plans to find out whether the owners of office buildings, hotels and data centers are being asked to pay their fair share in property taxes.

So excited to see movement on this. The outcome of this audit could mean HUGE wins for our city, school and county budgets! #TaxTheRich

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Community Response Training Join Councilmember Kelsea Bond for a District 2 workshop on how you can support your neighbors and take care of your community. Event Location: Little 5 Points Community Center, Shifalo Room (entra...

With the World Cup approaching, and increasing attacks marginalized communities, we want to make sure Atlanta residents know their rights and how to respond when our communities are threatened.

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We’re stronger when we organize together! 📢💚

Join the me and community organizations for a rapid response community training Sunday March 1 at the Little 5 Points Community Center starting at 2pm.

$35k a month for a consultant is more than so many Atlantans make in a year. What are we doing?

Atlanta has spent over $2.8M on training center litigation, consultant fees The city has paid former city clerk Foris Webb III $910,000 as a consultant to help with a signature verification process that never even began.

This is absurd. $2.8 million is more than the supportive housing funding gap we needed filled last month. Our city is wasting taxpayer money to protect its own image at the expense of essential government services. www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

Excited this issue is being taken seriously by Fulton County. Ultra wealthy property owners shouldn’t get away with paying less in taxes than regular people!

Would you look at that? We elect @kelseabondatl.bsky.social who championed this exact idea as a cornerstone of her campaign and others in atlanta see how it was supported and decide its also a good idea and try to implement it.

I hope it goes well because it would be a huge win for Atlanta.

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Join us tonight for a session on campaign planning, and tune into a panel with @kelseabondatl.bsky.social, Virginia Delegate Nicole Cole, and CC Reuge, Field Coordinator, Katie Wilson for Mayor of Seattle Campaign! actionnetwork.org/forms/apply-...