Gov Kemp Says Anti-Crime Bills Will Be Part of Fall Special Session wabe.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wabe.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In 2020 when Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat campaigned to be sheriff of Georgia’s most populated county, he committed to addressing several key areas.
Those areas included: public safety, crime reduction, improving jail conditions, increasing mental health services, expanding reentry programs and reviewing the sheriff’s office use-of-force policies.
Roughly one year after being elected as one of Fulton County’s top law enforcement officers and 7 months on the job, Sheriff Labat was a guest on Tuesday’s edition of “Closer Look.”
He talked with show host Rose Scott about how the sheriff’s office is working to tackle the focus areas he promised to address during his campaign trail amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Metro Atlanta law enforcement leaders address backlog of warrants, morale during town hall fox5atlanta.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from fox5atlanta.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
It is our problem too : City council, mayor at odds over future of the Atlanta City Jail
City Council, mayor at odds over future use of Atlanta City Jail
Tempers flared during a city hall meeting over Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms stance to not utilize the Atlanta City Jail as an overflow center to house inmates.
ATLANTA - Michael Bond is passionate about what he thinks should be done with the almost empty downtown city jail.
The city councilman supports a request from Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat that he be allowed to lease several hundred beds because his facility is overcrowded.
State House committee holds first hearing on Atlanta crime
Georgia lawmakers tackle crime in Atlanta
Georgia lawmakers are working to tackle the issue of crime in Atlanta. A series of hearings will be held over the summer to discuss the issue, officials stated. This committee wants to dig down and look at the facts. There s going to be a lot of politics involved in this and we re going to try to sidestep that, said state Rep. J. Collins, R-Villa Rica, the committee chairman.
Back in March House Speaker David Ralston, R-Blue Ridge, announced that he had tapped the committee to come up with what, if any, solutions the state might be able to provide to help fight the crime problem including offering help from the Georgia State Patrol or Georgia Bureau of Investigation.