In July 2023, the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Fulton County, citing violence, filthy living quarters and the in-custody death of a man whose body ...

One year after the Senate Committee on Public Safety chaired by Majority Whip Sen. Randy Robertson (R-Cataula) held a series ...

While the funding passed, some commissioners took issue with language in the resolution that accuses the sheriff’s office of ...

Fulton County on Wednesday approved additional funding to pay overtime for jailers who work for the Sheriff’s Office and to support efforts to hire and retain them.

At Wednesday’s Fulton County Board of Commissioners’ meeting, a resolution passed which approved a new overtime budget for ...

Inmate Edward Cherry stabbed fellow inmate Leonard Fortner to death with a shank inside the jail last April. The lawsuit accuses Fulton County officials of ignoring the conditions inside the jail ...