📢 Speak out for Diversion on Monday at City Hall! 📢 Join me at City Hall Monday for a press conference at 11:30AM in support of my first resolution, 26-R-3234, to expand diversion services ahead of the World Cup! Head inside afterwards to sign up for public comment.

Join us tomorrow at the Little 5 Points Community Center!

Love this attitude coming out of Fulton County! We can’t keep expanding the carceral system endlessly. We need to use every tool in the book to LOWER the jail’s population using diversion, increasing court staffing, and expanding mental health and housing services.

If anyone has questions beyond the pro-TAD propaganda numbers the city keeps releasing: only 18% of housing generated by TADs since 2014 was below 50% AMI, less than 10% below 30% AMI. This data is from Invest Atlanta.

My diversion resolution passed PSLA Committee today! On to the full Council meeting next Monday.

One of my goals of this Council term is to hold debate & discussion in a way that’s open and accessible to the public. You deserve that. If we can afford hours of proclamations on taxpayer time we can afford *minutes* of discussion, debate and Q&A.

Hear me talk Beltline Rail, the TADs, transparency, and democracy on Closer Look WABE with Rose Scott! 👇 www.wabe.org/atlanta-coun...

Let’s get Atlanta back on track with BELTLINE RAIL! 🚊🛤️ Join @atldemsoc this Saturday to speak with neighbors and residents about the future of green public transit in Atlanta! Sign up to canvass with us this Saturday 2/11 at 1pm! RSVP at atldsa.org/railcanvass 🔗

It’s live!

We can’t continue criminalizing poverty, homelessness, and mental illness. Instead, let’s fight for compassionate forms of public safety, and justice for all Atlantans — not just the wealthy who stand to profit from international events.

This resolution calls on APD to utilize the Center for Diversion Services to the greatest extent possible for eligible cases and to report data on the diversion to arrest ratio to City Council on a regular basis.

On average, only about three individuals per day are diverted to the CDS, even though the facility can serve 41 people at a time. Far too many eligible cases are not being diverted.

Since opening the Center for Diversion Services last year, data indicate that diversion referrals remain far below capacity. The CDS is a 24/7 facility designed to provide a safe, immediate alternative to arrest for individuals suffering from health needs or extreme poverty.

What’s happening at the jail is a human rights crisis and it’s morally imperative we leverage every tool to reduce the jail population. This means stepping up our use of pre-arrest diversion.

In 2023, the Fulton Jail was found by the U.S. Dept of Justice to be in violation of the constitutional rights of incarcerated people, resulting in a federal consent decree in 2025.

Ahead of hosting the World Cup this summer, this resolution calls for Atlanta to significantly step up its use of pre-arrest diversion as a way to curb unnecessary arrests and address the ongoing overcrowding crisis at the Fulton County Jail.

🚨FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Councilmember Kelsea Bond Introduces Resolution to Expand Diversion, Reduce Jail Overcrowding Ahead of World Cup Today I am proud to announce my first piece of legislation to be introduced at today’s Full City Council February 16th meeting at 1pm.

So excited to see movement on this. The outcome of this audit could mean HUGE wins for our city, school and county budgets! #TaxTheRich www.ajc.com/business/202...

Sign up for our D2 newsletter before we send out the first round! actionnetwork.org/forms/sign-u...

We’re stronger when we organize together! 📢💚 Join the me and community organizations for a rapid response community training Sunday March 1 at the Little 5 Points Community Center starting at 2pm.

This is absurd. $2.8 million is more than the supportive housing funding gap we needed filled last month. Our city is wasting taxpayer money to protect its own image at the expense of essential government services. www.ajc.com/news/2026/02...

Excited this issue is being taken seriously by Fulton County. Ultra wealthy property owners shouldn’t get away with paying less in taxes than regular people!

Would you look at that? We elect @kelseabondatl.bsky.social who championed this exact idea as a cornerstone of her campaign and others in atlanta see how it was supported and decide its also a good idea and try to implement it. I hope it goes well because it would be a huge win for Atlanta.

Join us tonight for a session on campaign planning, and tune into a panel with @kelseabondatl.bsky.social, Virginia Delegate Nicole Cole, and CC Reuge, Field Coordinator, Katie Wilson for Mayor of Seattle Campaign! actionnetwork.org/forms/apply-...

I’m so obsessed with my frogs. What’s he doing???

@atldemsoc.bsky.social’s Intown Branch having a great Super Bunny Weekend 🐰 discussing ecosocialism, reading Red Hot City 🌆 , & canvassing for Beltline Rail! 🚊

Three years after the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, the railroad, lawyers, and myriad companies involved in a $600 million class action settlement have all been paid — while many residents have yet to receive anything.

This country is being run by absolute demons

What’s next after Moving Atlanta Forward? Help us plan the next phase of transportation infrastructure projects in Atlanta by filling out the Comprehensive Transportation Plan Survey! 🚊🚴♿️ 🧑‍🦯 survey123.arcgis.com/share/e7a715...

Organizer on the inside: How Kelsea Bond’s activist moxie is shaking up City Hall Bond has applied grassroots labor organizing to municipal politics.

Thank you, Queens! Today, Astoria and Long Island City voted to send a socialist immigrant mom to the New York State Assembly. Our movement is headed to Albany. I’m ready to make you proud.

Boomers blowing up over my pronouns in a 1000 person email thread was not on my bingo card for this year but I guess that life as a nonbinary city councilmember

Late last year, City Council voted to create a time-limited TAD Commission to provide recommendations by ✨March 31✨ ahead of an anticipated vote on whether to extend all 8 Tax Allocation Districts for 30 years. ⏰

Mad about Beltline Rail? Help build bring your neighbors into the fight to expand public transit! Join us this weekend for a community survey canvass in O4W! atldsa.org/railcanvass

Reading all the emails this morning in favor of the Kirkwood supportive housing development is restoring my faith in humanity 💚

Atlantans, need you to call on your neighborhood orgs & NPUs to chime up, too. Contact information for known Chairs are included. Need people from all over the city to call on key decision makers to get their shit in order and stop obstructing transit expansion. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

How have a spent my first month in office? Fighting developer handouts AND the flu 🤒. Showing up to picket lines & zoning meetings. Read more about it here, and as a bonus, learn what I named my frogs! 🐸 atlantaciviccircle.org/2026/01/29/o...

Atlanta’s facing a housing crisis. How did we get here & what do we do about it? 👀 Join me NEXT SUNDAY 2/8 after my “Coffee with your Councilmember” event, @atldemsoc.bsky.social’s Intown Branch is hosting a reading discussion of “Red Hot City”. Come to Dancing Goats & discuss chapters 1-2. 📚

Stay in touch with our office! 💌📮 Sign up for the official District 2 Newsletter at bit.ly/atld2 for updates on what’s going on at City Hall, D2 neighborhood events, legislation, and more! What do you want to see in our newsletter? Leave a comment below! 👇

It’s a new year, and the perfect time to start fresh! Let’s execute what the voters asked for: Build Beltline Rail Now! 🚊🌱 saportareport.com/mayor-andre-...

This Wednesday at the rescheduled Zoning meeting, City Council will hear legislation to allow the construction of a data center near the West End station. Have an opinion? Email the Zoning Committee members! Read the legislation here: atlantacityga.iqm2.com/Citizens/Det...

Drop by Condesa Coffee in Old Fourth Ward anytime between 1-3pm to chat! Please RSVP at the link in our bio so we know what to expect: actionnetwork.org/events/coffe...

☕️ Get to know your new D2 Councilmember over Coffee! ☕️ Join me Sunday Feb. 8 for our first edition of “Get Coffee with your Councilmember!”. Ask questions about city policy, legislation, how to navigate 311 requests, or let me know what’s on your mind.

1/ Last year, 32 people died while in federal detention, making it the deadliest year for the agency in more than two decades. Two weeks ago, Renee Good was killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. Today, Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse, was killed by federal officers in the same city.

Over 75,000 Minnesotans marched yesterday—for our immigrant neighbors, for our communities, for the victims of senseless, horrifying, totalitarian violence. We will show up in below freezing weather again and again until we are all liberated. ICE OUT. Now.

Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish ICE.

🚊 Expect MARTA reduced or suspended service & check itsmarta.com for updates 🧤Warming centers are open at Central Park, Old Adamsville Rec. Center, & Selena S. Butler Park Stay warm out there!

🏡 Check on vulnerable & elderly family and neighbors 🐶 Bring your pets & plants inside! 💧Keep your faucets dripping ☎️ Contact 311 for non-emergencies 📲 Text NotifyATL to 24639 for updates!

Stay safe this weekend, ATL! 🥶 With icy storms approaching this weekend, there are a few ways to keep you and your loved ones safe: ❌ Avoid driving as much as possible due to icy roads 🔌 Charge your phones & laptops in case of power outages

At our next MidFulton Dems meeting, learn how to practice giving public comments & to which government level to submit it. With guests @royceforatlanta.bsky.social, Commissioner @thedanabarrett.bsky.social and Councilmember @kelseabondatl.bsky.social! Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/georgiademoc...