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Michael Collins | Senior Director for State and Local Government Affairs at Color Of Change and Devin Franklin | Movement Policy Counsel at Southern Center for Human Rights
In the summer of 2022, members of the Atlanta City Council and the Fulton County Board of Commissioners pursued an intergovernmental agreement allowing for the lease of Atlanta’s City Detention Center to the Fulton County Sheriff. The lease was intended to be a solution to the overcrowding at the Fulton County Jail. Their conversations centered […]
