Year: 2024

President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for 11 Georgia counties: Appling, Brooks, Coffee, Columbia, Jefferson, Liberty, Lowndes, Pierce, Richmond, Tattnall and Toombs.

Rockdale County officials have urged residents to shelter in place “if the plume or smell of chlorine is over their area until the cloud has passed.”

The United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia concluded that the Georgia Department of Corrections is violating incarcerated persons’ constitutional rights by failing to protect them from widespread physical violence and harm.