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‘They want to kill me:’ Inside the Folkston ICE Processing Center expansion atlpresscollective.com/2025/08/08/i...
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🖊️Layla Amar
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City of Atlanta settlement payouts cost $25.8M over two years Policing, vehicle accidents and employment issues cost City of Atlanta taxpayers the most in settlement payouts for FY24 and FY25.

City of Atlanta paid out $25.8M in taxpayer-funded settlements over two years atlpresscollective.com/2025/07/21/c...
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🖊️Matt Scott
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Atlanta Community Press Collective publishes open records from police foundation lawsuit The private nonprofit helps recruit and raise money for the Atlanta Police Department and was one of the groups behind the city's controversial police and firefighter training facility, widely known b...

Court rules that Atlanta Police Foundation release Cop City records after a lawsuit filed by Atlanta Community Press Collective and Lucy Parsons Lab

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Court rules that Atlanta Police Foundation release Cop City records after a lawsuit filed by Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlpresscollective.com and Lucy Parsons Lab @lucyparsonslabs.com

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Cornelius Taylor Coalition secures housing ahead of city sweep Unhoused Atlantans & community organizers negotiated with city officials to obtain housing for Backstreet residents before encampment sweep.

Coalition of organizers and unhoused Atlantans secured housing commitment from city ahead of sweep atlpresscollective.com/2025/07/15/c...
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🖊️Zoey Laird
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Cop City RICO: First trial delayed over mistrial, double jeopardy The speedy trial of Ayla King resumed after months of delays but was put back on hold after a mistrial and a double jeopardy acquittal motion.

Cop City RICO: Trial of Ayla King delayed again over mistrial, double jeopardy appeal atlpresscollective.com/2025/07/08/c...
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Cop City RICO: Mistrial declared in Ayla King’s case || Full Court Proceeding The Cop City RICO trial of Ayla King is once again headed to the Georgia Court of Appeals after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kevin M. Farmer declares a mistrial.

Cop City RICO: Mistrial declared in Ayla King’s case || Full Court Proceeding atlpresscollective.com/2025/07/07/c...
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Georgia Power set to freeze base rates until 2028 — with a catch The Georgia Public Service Commission recently weighed Georgia Power’s request to keep base consumer power rates frozen for three more years.

Georgia Power poised to freeze base rates until 2028 — with a catch atlpresscollective.com/2025/07/01/g...
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🖋️Alex IP
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APD official failed to disclose financial conflict, ethics probe finds Senior APD official held an equity stake in a police tech company he promoted in his official capacity, according to a recent ethics probe.

Senior APD official failed to disclose financial interest in police tech company, ethics probe finds atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/26/e...
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🖊️Andrew Free
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Opinion — Misplaced Priorities: The impact of anti-trans legislation The real-world consequences of Georgia's anti-trans legislation and priorities on healthcare, women's rights, and racial equality.

Opinion — Misplaced priorities: Policing trans bodies over securing our freedoms atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/25/o...
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🖊️Aleo Pugh
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Atlanta City Council candidates Q&A: Marci Collier Overstreet District 11 Council Member Marci Collier Overstreet stresses keeping the same people on the Council as crucial to Atlanta’s advancement.

Meet the Atlanta City Council candidates: Marci Collier Overstreet for city council president atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/22/a...
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🖊️Zak Kerr
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Explainer: People's Power Union wants clean, affordable energy The People's Power Union seeks to ensure the Georgia Public Service Commission works for everyone.

Explainer: Holding the Georgia Public Service Commission accountable with the People's Power Union atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/17/e...
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🖊️Karina Teichert
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Georgia grandfather's death in ICE custody leaves family in shock 68-year-old Abelardo Avellaneda-Delgado died while en route to ICE's Stewart Detention Center. Now, his family wants answers.

A 68-year-old grandfather died in ICE's custody. His family seeks answers. atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/12/i...
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🖊️Andrew Free
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Atlanta surveillance camera network mapping with Taylor Shelton Using APD data obtained via open records request, Taylor Shelton maps Atlanta's camera network and explores the city's surveillance strategy.

Opinion — Mapping Atlanta's camera network and surveillance strategy atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/10/a...
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🖋️Taylor Shelton
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Cornelius Taylor Coalition proposes Housing First policy for Atlanta In meetings with Mayor Dickens, the Justice for Cornelius Taylor Coalition is proposing a Housing First policy for Atlanta.

Justice for Cornelius Taylor Coalition and unhoused Atlantans propose Housing First policy atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/09/c...
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🖊️Zoey Laird
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Incarcerated Muslims in Georgia face challenges of faith and rights As Eid al-Adha begins, advocates push for the right of Incarcerated Muslims to practice their faith to the fullest extent.

Muslim life behind bars: From religious practice to retaliation atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/05/h...
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📷John Arthur Brown
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Metro Atlanta police agencies searching national database for ICE Metro Atlanta and other Georgia police agencies are searching Flock Safety cameras nationwide on behalf of ICE.

Flock Safety’s license plate readers used for immigration enforcement by metro Atlanta police departments atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/03/f...
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🖋️Matt Scott
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ACPC and Lucy Parsons Labs win open records lawsuit against Atlanta Police Foundation atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/02/a...
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🖊️Matt Scott
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Flock Safety: AI- powered surveillance capturing license plate data Flock Safety surveillance database enabled local police to track of a person who had an abortion in Texas.

Flock Safety: The billion-dollar company at the forefront of AI-powered surveillance atlpresscollective.com/2025/06/01/f...
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🖊️Andrew Free
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ATL61 Cop City RICO attorneys argue on evidence issues Attorneys for the ATL61 Cop City RICO defendants argued over throwing out evidence from a 2023 police raid and other discovery issues.

ATL61: ‘Cop City’ RICO judge hears arguments over evidence and discovery issues  atlpresscollective.com/2025/05/29/a...
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🖊️Matt Scott
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Opinion - The American Medical System Puts Profit Over Health As hospitals continue to close in low-income communities, the American medical system abandons the health of the most vulnerable.

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ICE action at Atlanta immigration court raise due process concerns ICE agents began checking immigrants' documents outside Atlanta Immigration Court, lawyers reported, raising due process concerns.

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🖋️Andrew Free
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Accessing legal resources with Atlanta Community Support Project Atlanta Community Support Project's recently launched Toolkits Platform promotes self-advocacy through legal and policy resources.

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I'm not saying that's where things are headed. The question is, does it have to get to that point to consider where we have gotten, as a society, when it comes to that sort of thing? Does it even have to be only ten beds? One bed?

If it only takes one bed, then we are already there.

The room is in a building where each floor has the same bed arrangement. Two-hundred beds to a room, except that there's a different race on each floor. All on life support machines, with babies in their bellies.

Sounds like some dystopian, sci-fi movie that we've all seen at some point, right?

Imagine walking into a large room with 4 rows of beds, 50 beds to row. Each bed has black woman lying in it kept "alive" by a machine, each with a baby in the belly, scheduled to be delivered at some point.

Atlanta procurement employee whistleblowers targeted, union says Union claims layoffs in Atlanta's Procurement Department may have violated city policy on reduction in force and whistleblower protections.

Whistleblowers targeted in Atlanta’s Department of Procurement, employee union alleges atlpresscollective.com/2025/05/16/w...
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🖊️Matt Scott
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Better ICE detention data is now available to journalists Researchers created a new method to calculate how many people are detained at ICE facilities – and uncovered some hidden population spikes.

Expert commentary: Researchers created a new method to calculate how many people are detained at ICE facilities – and uncovered some hidden population spikes that don’t appear in ICE’s own reports.

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Stop Cop City RICO trials set to begin this summer, judge says Trials for 61 Stop Cop City RICO defendants begin soon after nearly two years with a tight timeline bringing alarm to defense attorneys.

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