Registered lobbyist and city contractor Bernie Tokarz’s civil rights complaint against former Atlanta Inspector General Shannon Manigault and the city was dismissed without prejudice by a federal judge on Monday.

Excellent column by King Williams.

A local organizer uses scenarios of colorful animal friends in conversation to help families break the ice on ICE every Saturday afternoon in Grant Park.

A seemingly routine $15,000 contract has become a prolonged fight in Dunwoody, as the city council, for the second time in as many months, unanimously voted to defer a deal for Flock Safety’s 911 response system due to ongoing privacy, security and legal concerns.

Atlanta City Council meeting March 16, 2026, not-so-live thread.

full-time open records boss Carl Appen at @appenmedia.bsky.social is publishing his notes to help you be a Georgia open records boss too #gapol recordshelpline.com

Unfortunately, we will not be live-posting today's meeting of the Atlanta City Council. We're in D.C. at Sunshine Fest learning and talking about open records with 200 other professionals dedicated to the craft. We'll return with Atlanta City Council coverage on April 6.

I was so thrilled to speak with two awesome independent journalists about how they keep themselves and their footage safe. This aims to intersect actionable digital and operational security advice with the real techniques and gear actually being used by journalists in the field. Hope it's useful!

Happening now in DeKalb County: Defense attorneys for 12 Stop Cop City protesters charged with domestic terrorism are arguing motions to dismiss the charges. We’re following the hearing and will share updates as it unfolds.

This wasn't on the original agenda because it was introduced as walk in legislation during today's Committee on Council Meeting. There is a resolution calling for an independent investigation into the Foris Webb III contract. atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

Jack Mazurek, a Stop Cop City activist who was arrested in February 2024, offered a non-cooperation plea Monday morning to the charge of first-degree arson. Mazurek was sentenced to 10 years probation and 300 hours community service.

Atlanta City Council meeting, March 2, 2026, live thread.

Yi Hui Xu had his last court hearing in March 2025. He hasn’t heard anything since. He says he just wants to go home, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) won’t let him. Maybe because he called them the Gestapo to their faces, he jokes. He looks exhausted.

Hundreds of students and dozens of organizations across Georgia’s five major law schools demand ICE be uninvited to the schools’ Public Sector Career Fair Friday.

I just contributed to the Atlanta Community Press Collective’s fundraiser. They’re in danger of shutting down. Match me and keep independent news going in Atlanta. givebutter.com/keep-acpc-te... @atlpresscollective.com

We love open records requests! Check out the @freedom.press panel to hear some amazing tips and tools for making your own public records requests.

The Dunwoody City Council unanimously voted to defer a 12-month contract with Flock Safety for its 911 dispatch software on Monday.

Have you ever wondered, “WTF is a TAD and why is everyone talking about them?” Well, check out the Eastside TAD Talk tonight. The event is at capacity, but ACPC will be live streaming to our YouTube. Subscribe to the channel to be alerted when we go live!

Governing Board of the Office of Inspector General meeting Feb. 17, 2026 live thread.

Atlanta City Council meeting live thread, Feb. 16, 2026.

We've done numbers. We've tightened our belt. We've figured out how much we need to raise from the community to keep our work going. We need you to help us raise $65,000 to ACPC keep operating at the level you expect from us until the second half of the year, when most of our revenue comes in.

Proud to support a great local news organization. Everyone else should too

Atlanta, we love you. We put out the call that we need emergency financial support from our community, and we've seen an amazing response! We made a big dent in the shortfall, but we still need additional community support to keep this project going. We need more donors to commit to $5 a month.

Became a monthly donor today because this journalism matters.

I just donated to Atlanta Community Press Collective because their coverage of local politics is important! Please support them if you can.

I’m a monthly donator now and you can be too! Donate to independent media, especially when they’re as good as ACPC!

Just donated. You should too. Atlanta > Everything

There are literally more surveillance cameras in Atlanta (124.14 per 1000 people) than people aged 65 and over (123 per 1000 people) according to the 2024 U.S. Census population estimates

Flock is from Atlanta. Fusus is from Atlanta. Cop City is in Atlanta--so much of the surveillance and policing around the country comes from here. That's exactly why we need strong independent journalism on the ground sounding the alarm. Please give if you can to @atlpresscollective.com.

Hard to overstate how important ACPC is and has been, and not only to the people of Atlanta. This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.

yall, Atlanta Community Press Collective is running out of $. we’ve sued for public records when no one else would. we covered Cop City from the ground for years. we train and pay local freelancers. we publish work other outlets wouldn’t touch. if this reporting means anything to you, PLEASE donate

I cannot more strongly emphasize enough that our city is in a DEFCON1 civic crisis. Donald Trump wants to rule America like Atlanta. We need help, and more importantly, we need cash that is free from the influence of regimes and oligarchs. You can support @atlpresscollective.com here:

We can still support local journalism—I just set up a recurring donation for @atlpresscollective.com and you can too! every little bit helps.

Help keep @atlpresscollective.com open! Their reporting on Flock and Cop City have been invaluable for informing people around me. An outlet who's honest and trustworthy, and tonally professional enough that I can share it with less leftist people without being immediately dismissed.

Hey, it's Matt. For nearly five years, ACPC has been committed to journalism that holds power accountable, gives everyone a way of knowing what happens in our city government and ensures the voices of protesters are represented in the news. Now our ability to keep doing that is in jeopardy.

Last March, @thexylom.com partnered with @atlpresscollective.com and @285southatl.bsky.social to publish this @alexmusicwrites.bsky.social story on how doctors are depolarizing climate change by talking to patients about the issue: www.thexylom.com/post/the-fif...

Especially bad news for Atlantans, but also bad news for all of us and democracy. As more and more cities become increasingly unreported, ordinary corruption has an ever more open field into which to cohere into local authoritarianisms, rippling out and up.

Even more bad news for Atlanta local journalism: @atlpresscollective.com, which has extensively covered "Cop City", ICE, and Flock cameras, and a finalist for the @inn.org Insight Award for Visual Journalism, announced today that they have run out of cash to stay open beyond the end of March.

Movement journalists: Check out these tips from movement lawyer Sam Hamilton of @atlpresscollective.com and @aaaj-aajc.bsky.social to keep in mind if you get arrested on the job (this doesn’t constitute legal advice; contact an attorney for advice specific to your circumstances).

Deliveries made to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of Firearms and Tactical Programs (OFTP) at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia in 2025.

Let me offer one data point: @thexylom.com's January readership grew by 76% YoY. Since we don't place ads, we are growing our audience purely by word-of-mouth. However, Google did not renew its support last fiscal year, and we completely exhausted our reserves. I don't know how long we can survive.

Central Gwinnett High School students are “doing it scared:” Inside the student-led ICE walkout by Maya Omar, CGHS student and Editor-in-Chief of The Camelot.

HB 295 would allow property owners to make claims for compensation from local governments if they incur expenses or loss of property value from nonenforcement of laws or maintaining a public nuisance.

Atlanta City Council Meeting Feb. 2, 2026, live thread.

Several hundred people have gathered on Buford Highway to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies and celebrate the general strike launched by Twin City residents on Jan. 23 and today.

Governing Board of the Office of Inspector General meeting Jan. 29, 2025