Gemma Skuraton, who was formerly Georgia Southern University’s director of student wellness and health promotion, will receive a settlement of $250,000.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37508190

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36824196

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests have spiked and bed space has dwindled at detention centers, the agency has turned to detaining immigrants for long stretches in the basement of its Atlanta field office, a facility that traditionally served only as a holding area.

In addition to immigration attorneys, the AJC spoke to advocates, family members of detained immigrants and a man currently in ICE custody who are all familiar with conditions inside Atlanta’s ICE office, located at 180 Ted Turner Dr.

They describe a facility that does not have the space or amenities to hold people overnight: no beds, no showers, and no opportunity to receive visits from loved ones or from attorneys — a situation that may be exposing immigrants to worse conditions than those found in Georgia’s ICE detention centers.

One attorney said her client, a nursing mother, spent nine days sleeping on the floor at the Atlanta field office’s holding room. Another said she is representing a man who was detained at the field office for a weekend, where he had to sleep next to an open toilet.

Archived at https://archive.is/b8M9C

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28057374

Federal investigators have subpoenaed records related to travel they believe Fani Willis took around the time of last year’s election, but it was not immediately clear why.

Revenge of course. Not that the NYT can say it. Or admit that its a baseless fishing expedition

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/36454212

New survey seeks info on Atlantans’ travel patterns to Hostess City, other parts of Georgia

Saturday August 2nd :: RAGE AGAINST THE REGIME :: Protest March - 10:30 AM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33818208

Shithole state cements republiQan hegemony. Check your state today.

• Consolidates power by stripping non-partisian chair from hiring duties
• Does so in surpise five-minute vote without discussion
• Blocks Lyft from offering discounted rides to polling stations
• other shitty things

“This is a last-minute request I was not aware of until five minutes ago,” Fervier said.

“Life’s full of last-minute things that happen,” Mills responded.

The back-and-forth over hiring authority came after the board hired a new paralegal and assistant to the executive director who was criticized for not having a legal background or formal legal training.

The new hire, Hope Coan, is the wife of former executive director Mike Coan, a Republican ex-state lawmaker who left his board position earlier this year.

The nonpartisan chair Fervier tried to raise concerns about the appointment, but was cut off by the new executive director Mills.

“I do not think this individual meets the necessary qualifications for this job, and the hiring process itself was improper,” Fervier said. “That is out of order,” Mills replied.

Hope Coan’s LinkedIn says she is president of Coan Construction. The staffer she is replacing was certified as a notary public, completed a paralegal certificate course and had worked for more than a year as a paralegal at a law firm.

Democratic member Sara Tindall Ghazal said she was not included in the search at all.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33227437

cross-posted from: https://yall.theatl.social/post/6872667

Peter Hubbard, a clean energy advocate, secured the Democratic Party nomination for the District 3 Georgia Public Service Commission seat Tuesday evening.  His decisive victory allows him to advance to November’s general election where he will face GOP incumbent Commissioner Fitz Johnson.  The commission regulates utilities like Georgia Power and plays an important role in […]

#Atlanta #GeorgiaRecorder

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/28705982

Ximena is a 19-year-old college student currently under ICE detention. We are raising funds for her immigration attorney and bond. Ximena is a graduate of DHS. She came to this country in 2010 at the age of 4. She did not qualify for DACA as the program ended the year before her family immigrated. She has babysat for my kids for years. We adore her. Ximena is my close friend and my children’s favorite babysitter. All money raised is going directly to Ximena and her family to be used for legal representation.