Where to vote Tuesday, March 21
The old joke says, “Vote early and vote often.” If you live inside the city limits of incorporated Jonesboro, you’ll get to vote twice on Tuesday (in two different elections, that is). If you live in the City of Jonesboro Go to City Center (the big new City Hall next to Lee Street park), 1859…
MATTIE’S CALL: Kamari Gibbons, 14
The Clayton County Police Department has issued a Mattie’s Call for Kamari Gibbons, 14, who went missing in Morrow Wednesday evening. According to a press release from CCPD, police responded to the 7100 block of Southlake Parkway, where they learned that Gibbons “packed her belongings and left her residence on foot on March 13, 2023…
Taxpayers foot $18K on interim sheriff’s car mods
Criss, Bohrer named on POs Clayton County Acting Sheriff Levon Allen spent $18,687 in county funds in November to trick out two vehicles with custom lights and firearms storage accessories. And that doesn’t include the custom graphics. On March 10, The Clayton Crescent filed an Open Records Request, seeking documentation of how much Allen had…
Judge: “Arrogant” Hill gets 18 months
CORRECTION: Photo of CCSO Chaplain Charles Davis was incorrectly ID’d as CCSO Social Media Manager Carl Johnson. The only question Victor Hill had after hearing his sentence to 18 months in a federal prison for violating the rights of six pretrial detainees under color of law was whether he could “[support] a political candidate.” Hill…
Gang attacks, extortion, drugs in Clayton County Jail
Detainees allege corrections officers, others beat Alan Willison People who have been detained in the Clayton County Jail, as well as relatives of detainees, allege that corrections officers are either beating up pretrial detainees or getting jumped by multiple detainees; that detainees can put in orders for everything from cigarettes at $100 or more a…
Jail detainees say their lives at stake
With a special election for Clayton County sheriff coming up next week, people detained at the county’s scandal-plagued jail are speaking out about horrific conditions. This story was originally published by The Appeal. by Elizabeth Weill-Greenbergtheappeal.org Just over a week away from a closely watched sheriff’s election, people detained at Georgia’s Clayton County Jail say they are made to…
Your Monday Roundup for March 13, 2023
Tuesday is the day that former sheriff Victor Hill will learn his fate when he appears before Judge Eleanor Ross in the U.S. Northern District of Georgia, where he will be sentenced on six counts of violating the civil rights of pretrial detainees under color of law. Hill has been scrambling to ensure his regime…
