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  • Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Site Plans Intrenchment Creek Bridge and Stream Buffer Variance – July 2022 Plans 

    October 19, 2022

    With gratitute to the South River Watershed Alliance for helping to compile the open records requests that produced these site plans. These plans are current as of July 2022, dated to a re-submittial of the land development permit for the cop city project to DeKalb County. Due to the size and length of many of… Read more

  • Atlanta Public Safety Training Center Site Plans Zoning Letter and Plat and Boundary Line Adjustments – July 2022 Plans 

    October 19, 2022

    With gratitute to the South River Watershed Alliance for helping to compile the open records requests that produced these site plans. These plans are current as of July 2022, dated to a re-submittial of the land development permit for the cop city project to DeKalb County. Due to the size and length of many of… Read more

  • Opinion: Cop City Must Be Stopped

    October 13, 2022

     Last week, the AJC published an article in which they tried to smear the movement to defend the largest intact forest in Atlanta, Weelaunee Forest, and to stop construction of the largest planned militarized police training facility in the country, known as “Cop City.” Once again failing to disclose their financial ties to the Atlanta… Read more

  • Tell Liliana Bakhtiari and Jason Dozier it’s time to Stop Cop City!

    September 30, 2022

    Atlanta City Council members Liliana Bakhtiari ran on platforms of police accountability. Councilmember Bakhtiari in particular had been a vocal opponent of the proposed police and fire “training” facility in unincorporated DeKalb County prior to their election to city council, and an ally to the movement to stop it. Our open records requests have since… Read more

  • September 14th Reportback

    September 15, 2022

    On the morning of September 14th at approximately 9:30am, ten to twenty Atlanta Police Department officers escorted a charter bus into the grounds of the old city of Atlanta landfill on the opposite side of Key Rd., across from the old prison farm gate. The charter bus appeared to have a number of individuals in… Read more

  • Intrenchment Creek Park Blocked Off By DeKalb Police At Behest of Private Property Owners

    July 19, 2022

    It is the opinion of ACPC that the unnamed property owner gave Dekalb County PD its marching orders and has not acted in good faith or in accordance with legal precedent. It is truly outrageous but utterly unsurprising that the police would act in the interests of wealthy, private landowners – that is, after all,… Read more

  • With Removal of Member Lily Ponitz, CSAC Cements its Role as a Rubber Stamp and Stifles Dissent

    With Removal of Member Lily Ponitz, CSAC Cements its Role as a Rubber Stamp and Stifles Dissent
    June 23, 2022

    After nearly an hour of debate in which former committee member Lily Ponitz was allotted just over two minutes at the start to defend herself, the Community Stakeholders Advisory Committee (CSAC) voted to remove Ponitz via an unusual voting method with only Ponitz herself and Amy Taylor voting against removal. Members Amy Taylor, Shuan Billingslea,… Read more

  • MEDIA ADVISORY: As public opposition grows, Atlanta police attempt to begin work on Cop City, protestors occupy trees

    June 6, 2022

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 6, 2022 [click for PDF] Two tree sits have been built and occupied in the site of the proposed “Cop City,” in the Weelaunee/South River Forest in south Atlanta. Last week, Atlanta Police attempted to start work preparing the forest for mass clear-cutting of trees, even as popularity for the project has… Read more

  • OPINION: Paradigm shift or a perpetuation of injustice: The Atlanta Prison Farm and the South River Forest

    June 3, 2022

    By Margaret Spalding “Prison Farming” is a product of the Jim Crow era that endures to this day. A formalized system of free labor and servitude, the Atlanta Prison Farm was defined by racist, inhumane practices, violence, overcrowded, wretched conditions, and grueling labor that often led to the death of inmates. Having provided great economic… Read more

  • Hydrology study for cop city

    June 2, 2022

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