georgia

Sheriff Wanted on Sexual Battery Charge Isn’t Under Arrest Because He’s ‘Participating in A Church-Sponsored Mission Trip’ Out of State: Deputies 4 February 2022 A Georgia sheriff is wanted on sexual battery charges for allegedly groping a judge’s breast at a hotel bar late last month, but...

New Bill Will Fully Exempt Law Enforcement from Paying Income Tax 5 January 2022 One of the main reasons people comply with tax requirements in the United States is due to fear of an audit and the subsequent jail sentence that could come along with it. If you choose to avoid paying the state...

11th Circuit Says a Sheriff Violated the First Amendment by Posting Warning Signs on the Lawns of Registered Sex Offenders Butts County, Georgia, Sheriff Gary Long cited no evidence to support his pre-Halloween stunt. 1 February 2022 A Georgia sheriff violated the First Amendment when he...

There Is Nothing 'Conservative' About Letting Police Violate Our Rights Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's support for qualified immunity is in opposition to the principles he says he stands for. 21 January 2021 Newly-minted Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin appears on track to become somewhat of a...

Michael Bongiovanni (left) & Robert McDonald right) Man beaten, kicked in head during 2017 Gwinnett County traffic stop settles lawsuit Back in September Demetrius Hollins filed a suit against Gwinnett County, Gwinnett Police Chief Butch Ayers and officers involved in the incident. 11 January...

Houston County deputy suspended after social media comment on Ahmaud Arbery case 10 January 2022 A deputy in Houston County is facing termination for what he wrote on a social media post about the latest development in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. Arbery's killing made national news almost...

Investigation: Accidental shootings like one in Iowa show police training gaps 11 December 2019 When an Iowa mother tried to take her child from her husband during an argument on a snowy sidewalk in 2015, an officer stepped in to stop the scuffle, firing his weapon as a dog approached. The...

Story is about the degree to which KKK members are embedded in local law enforcement agencies, especially in Florida: Former FBI informant who thwarted KKK-law enforcement murder plots goes public for his own safety 23 December 2021 From 2007 to 2018, Joseph Moore was an undercover...

Former Iowa officer wanted for threatening to kill wife, in-laws is charged with several counts of sex abuse 4 December 2019 A former central Iowa officer who fled the state after allegedly threatening the lives of several family members has been charged with sexual abuse, court records show...

Vallejo police secretly tested ‘dystopian’ facial recognition tool 13 April 2021 Members of the Vallejo Police Department secretly used facial recognition technology developed by Clearview AI, a company embroiled in public controversy for allegedly violating personal privacy laws in several...

Dallas Police Took $106,000 From a Traveler. They Haven't Explained Why. A police dog's alert prompted the search, and the money was seized via civil asset forfeiture. 8 December 2021 On Sunday, a Facebook post from the Dallas Police Department went viral. It depicts a police dog, Ballentine...

Judge Orders Massachusetts Prisons To Stop Using 'Highly Unreliable' Drug Field Tests To Punish Inmates Although the tests are used by prison systems and police departments across the country, a judge found they have an error rate "only marginally better than a coin-flip." 2 December 2021 A...

Devonia Inman Sees His Conviction Overturned After 23 Years Behind Bars 29 November 2021 MORE THAN 20 YEARS after Devonia Inman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit, a judge in Georgia has overturned his conviction, writing that state misconduct and...

Cops Thought Sand From Her Stress Ball Was Cocaine. She Spent Nearly 6 Months in Jail And now an appeals court has ruled the cops who arrested her aren't entitled to qualified immunity from her lawsuit 16 November 2021 Add stress balls to the list of innocuous items that have landed innocent...

Man shot by trooper among many with mental illness history 12 November 2021 A man fatally shot by a Virginia state trooper after a police chase and a crash that killed his passenger had been mentally ill for years, according to court records. Brian Michael Price, 45, was judged not guilty by...

A Knoxville Woman Called 911. Instead of Getting Help, She Was Arrested and Placed in Immigration Detention for Months. Knox County's program authorizing such enforcement activities may have been instituted illegally 10 November 2021 In November 2020, Maira Oviedo-Granados of Knoxville...

No, Black jurors aren’t ‘biased’ when it comes to shootings of Black people 11 November 2021 Jury service cannot only be for the white, the lucky and the obstinately stoic in the face of racial injustice. The jury seated in the trial over the killing of Ahmaud Arbery – a Black man who was...

A Private Prison Company Just Lost a Major Battle Over $1-Per-Day Wages for Immigrant Workers 28 October 2021 The people locked up in one for-profit immigration detention center are in line for one hell of a raise. For years, the GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest private prison...

The Demand for Money Behind Many Police Traffic Stops Busted taillights, missing plates, tinted windows: Across the U.S., ticket revenue funds towns — and the police responsible for finding violations. 31 October 2021 Harold Brown’s contribution to the local treasury began as so many others...

Great White Hunters: U.S. Marshal Eric Heinze (left) & Clayton County Sheriff's Deputy Kristopher Hutchens (right) 2 Georgia law officers indicted in man’s 2016 shooting death A grand jury has returned an indictment against two law enforcement officers in the 2016 death of a man shot 76...