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Aggregated Open Records Requests in GA. Previously (& sometimes still) sharing ATL city council/politics. Stop Cop City. ACAB.
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This account is transitioning to focus on posting open records received from requests submitted by the public. We believe that open records are for everyone and that you don't have to be a journalist to submit them.
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In case there was any doubt, social media is very much monitored during movements. This is from an Atlanta police homeland security report dated 6/28/23
#StopCopCity
#foiaFriday
@CopCityVote
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Atlanta police dept employment data for 2023 which includes name, badge number, position, age, gender, ethnicity, hiring date, annual salary, department, regular hours, overtime hours, and bonuses
#foiaFriday
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Looks like Dickens had an introductory call with White House director of intergovernmental affairs Tom Perez where they discussed cop city [among other things].
#StopCopCity
(obtained via GORA)
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5 APD commanders are supposed to visit Israel next week as part of the GILEE exchange program [
#FreePalestine
]
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This is beautiful. The mayors office of communications team finds cop city a nuisance requiring "reactive messaging" and "crisis communications" that is not part of their job description. From the ATL mayor of communications 8/28/23 assessment
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Cadence bank donated $50k to the Atlanta Police Foundation (for cop city) which was presented by mayor Dickens at the Cadency bank ATL advisory board meeting on August 3rd. (Cadence is providing the loan for cop city). Obtained via GA open records request
#StopCopCity
#foiaFriday
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All cop cities are connected - APF Gregory McNiff inviting APD Marshall Freeman & friends to a cop city Chicago discussion meeting. - No cop cities anywhere
#StopCopCity
(Obtained via GORA)
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It's so painfully obvious that cop city was city council's last big hurrah and they've completely checked out. At today's full council meeting when Moore asked Dicken's for his personal paper he just responded "AYE!" and had to be reminded that he was not voting on anything
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In case there was any doubt, social media is very much monitored during movements. This is an Atlanta police homeland security report dated 6/6/23
#StopCopCity
#foiaFriday
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Founding GILEE director Friedmann notified APD accreditation manager Quigley after a group of Emory Drs called on GSU to end support of cop city/GILEE, urging Quigley to share with homeland security. Matthew Condland of hs instructs law dpt this is under active investigation 1/3
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Working on getting this full report uploaded somewhere for everyone to see. DM if you have any questions about it.
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Excellent thread on surveillance of the movement to stop cop city by Atlanta Police, APD homeland security, GBI, FBI. Note- this is not new, social media monitoring has been going on for the majority of the movement's existence
#StopCopCity
#FOIA
On July 5, Mayor Andre Dickens said at a press conference, “there’s no one in my administration or law enforcement that would get in the way of their constitutional right to have a [referendum] petition.”
APD emails tell a different story.
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Todd Coyt reports that APD does see and hear "Stop Cop city" and "Defund the police" and it affects moral. Public Safety Legal Administration meeting presentation 8/23 (Sounds like we need to be louder)
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Cop city has always been a business deal
#StopCopCity
(obtained via GORA)
Blackhall Studios issued a 100 acre + land disturbance permit to this address 6/29 by dekalb county.
@AlexIp718
@JohnRuchAtlanta
@MattACPC
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🧵 Just got back a bunch of stuff on GILEE from open records. Will be posting it here in no particular order:
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Here's everyone who's requested the
@CopCityVote
petition. Al Jazeera just wanted confirmation of # of signatures, everyone else asked for copies of the full signed petition. Take note of
@ksderby
of Atlantans for safety/Atlantans for effective government and Dickens' campaign.
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Atlanta police department is worried about doxxing of their officers for their involvement in their propaganda (promotion) of cop city
#StopCopCity
(obtained via GA open records request)
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US Dept of Homeland Security published a report 2 weeks before the killing of Tortuguita on "DVE attacks and sustained violent opposition" against cop city. (obtained via GORA)
#StopCopCity
#FOIAFriday
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APF doesn't want
@atlcouncil
to know they drafted the union president letter to them. APD and APF working together hide that APF has been consistently using ATL electeds to control the narrative of cop city.
#StopCopCity
(Obtained via GORA)
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They're getting ready for this weekend Alt text: photo of cop city site, there is a fence to the left and in the background you can see at least 8 APD setting up razor wire, there are at least 5 vehicles in the background at least 2 are APD.
#StopCopCity
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Looks like the October GILEE trip to Israel was the 21st - 28th with 6 APD in attendance.
Open records make a lot of things public information :D
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92% of the Atl fire dept has been vaccinated per fire chief Roderick Smith. I'm curious what the current APD vaccination numbers are
#AtlScanner
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(for the record, we're no cop city anywhere - abolish the police )
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If you're out protesting - be bold, be safe, be smart. (If you're in ATL) Don't let yourself get kettled in centential park and WEAR A MASK (covid is still here and you don't want people taking pics of your full face do you?)
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How it started -> How it's going
If you're in GA- Remember to always ask them to cite the The Official Code of Georgia Annotated or O.C.G.A. if they say they can't answer your request!
#FoiaFriday
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History always repeats itself. Just replace "Juvenile Detention Center" with "Training Center". From the AJC 1995
#StopCopCity
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The $ "reward" for arson & DT has been "enhanced" to (up to) $50k with crime stoppers per their Sept Q3 meeting -none of their other categories come even close to this amount.
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Atlanta police department homeland security unit social media list (this list is truly honestly more of a laugh than a spook): via
@internetarchive
#foiaFriday
#StopCopCity
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Fun thing to open records request with your local PD are keywords like "motorola" and "invoice"
The Israeli military trains with the Baltimore Police Department, as it does with many other police departments in the U.S., and the contract holder for BPD’s newly fully encrypted police radios is Motorola, which holds contracts with the IDF and Israeli police.
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City of ATL knew about the phase 1 environmental site assessment since at least March 2nd, '21 (obtained via GORA)
#StopCopCity
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APF wants to use football recruitment tactics to market cop city
#StopCopCity
(obtained via GORA)
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21-O-0367 cop city ground lease print out (spoilers, this is essentially a blank check for APF to do whatever they want):
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In ATL GORA news - 40,814 potential emails between Dickens' office and the White House YTD. It took the executive office 18 days and multiple promptings to tell us this btw.
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@MattACPC
wrote an in depth article on the rampant overtime found in this document and how it's connected to cop city
#StopCopCity
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Anyone have that statement handy that goes along the lines of cops can handle one big action but get overwhelmed with multiple actions happening at the same time?
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Look at this breakdown on how much less it would've cost the CoA
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‘Cop City’ Defendant Victor Puertas Has Been Held For Months Without Trial
Nov. 12 marked Victor Puertas’ 46th birthday. But while family and friends throughout the region gathered in his hometown of Salt Lake City, Victor spent the day behind bars. 📹
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Looks like this year's APF event a night in blue is going to be held at the Buckhead Theater at 7pm November 4th
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The person who submitted this request was originally told it would take 21 weeks to receive their request
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The name always changes depending on who they're talking to but it will always be cop city. This is from a presentation dated 1/22/21
#StopCopCity
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🧵Here's how APF proposed the funding structure for cop city in 2021, which allows for tax-exempt bond financing. Obtained via open records request.
#StopCopCity
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Being a GILEE participant costs almost $10k [wonder whose budget this comes out of] Note Atl Public Schools police chief Applin was a participant. (obtained via GORA) 1/3
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👀check out some of those email addresses
Notably, these Homeland Security bulletins are also sent to Dave Wilkinson, CEO of the Atlanta Police Foundation (APF), and Greg McNiff, Vice President of Programs at the APF.
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Is the lease even available for council members to look over? Jon Keen said council members would have it by Monday. How can council members be expected to make good decisions with such a short timeframe to go over a lease for 350 acres?
The Council on Monday will consider legislative items related to the funding and construction of the proposed Public Safety Training Facility and a plan to evaluate the installation of surveillance cameras at parks in
#Atlanta
.
Read more:
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APD compiled a scope of work for public records web hosted software that can query public databases for personal info including but not limited to social media, IP/MAC address, friends/family, places commonly visited, phone number/address - accessible by any "authorized user" 1/2
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Full Atl City Council meeting 9/7: There are 15 hours and 51 minutes of public comment with committee of the whole having over an hour of public comment.
#StopCopCity
#AtlScanner
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This is March 6th but might be a good time to mention every call APD's Public Affairs unit gets slows down their progress in gathering information
#StopCopCity
BREAKING: A group of Stop Cop City activists have broken onto the training center site to attempt to halt construction work.
They are calling this “The People’s Injunction”
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Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner Bruce Thompson is planning on using slave labor of incarcerated individuals to fill staffing shortages across the state
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Open records make a lot of things public information :D
5 APD commanders are supposed to visit Israel next week as part of the GILEE exchange program [
#FreePalestine
]
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Rob Baskin of the APF asks sgt Paxon if there's any intel on "antifa" funding letter writing campaigns (obtained via open records request)
#StopCopCity
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Thankfully it did not take the fully 21 weeks (just around a month). A similar request was made to Dekalb county (which was answered in 2 weeks)
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APD, FBI, DEA, US Marshals, GBI, APS, Fulton Co Sheriff 🤝 APF - Trying to win over "the youth" (Obtained via GORA)
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No cop cities anywhere - abolish the police
NEW: Council member Bakhtiari is considering introducing legislation next week to ask voters through ballot referendum: should the city stop construction in the South River Forest and relocate the proposed training facility to another location?
#atlpol
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Is anyone talking about how the no face masks was already a GA law and Kemp just EOed it away for covid?
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So who exactly is paying for power at cop city? Proposals from Ga power list the customer as CoA. The lease states the leese is responsible for utilities.
@atlcouncil
@CityofAtlanta
@andreforatlanta
have not responded to inquiries. (Obtained via open records request)
#StopCopCity
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APF and DaVinci discussed that they would need to go to market [for contractors] 2 months before Brasfield & Gorrie mobilized but that "won't happen until indictments have happened"
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Just tuned in to the Public Safety zoom meeting by Archibong: "there is no alternative to this training center, we must move forward"
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Brasfield & Gorrie, ls3p, Cadence bank, Shadowbox studios, Southern Co, and APF ask APD for info on how to protect themselves from doxxing
#StopCopCity
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Cop city community stakeholders “input” zoom meeting
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Someone please print and frame this for the
@CopCityVote
people: "They are do a great job of painting their narrative and we always end up reacting"
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Mayors office of communications must be loving their jobs today
This is beautiful. The mayors office of communications team finds cop city a nuisance requiring "reactive messaging" and "crisis communications" that is not part of their job description. From the ATL mayor of communications 8/28/23 assessment
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Councilwoman Sheperd gave a briefing to the APF board of trustees about the "importance" of cop city with a script provided by APF. APF has been consistently using ATL electeds to control the narrative of cop city.
#StopCopCity
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Mayor Dickens' future calendar is exempt from open records requests for security reasons. However, you can still get his script writing assignment calendar. Here are the events currently listed for the rest of the year:
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Little 🧵 on Kendra-Sue Derby of Atlantans for safety/Atlantans for effective government and Dickens' campaign
Here's Kendra-Sue Derby's request for the
@CopCityVote
petition who
@shedefendsit
mentioned (along with everyone else who asked for it). Al Jazeera just wanted confirmation of # of signatures, everyone else asked for copies of the full signed petition. Obtained via GORA
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Really could use a master list of all the cop cities they're trying to build
1/ The city of San Pablo is set to build a regional police training center it estimates will cost $43.6 million
It's a large investment for the small city, population about 30K, which spent about $66 on all its budget expenditures last year. My report:
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Deputy Chief Operating Officer Jon Keen (under KLB) getting approval/asking for feedback from APF on talking points to present to
@atlcouncil
FEC meeting. Also looks like CM Matzigkeit was also colluding.
#StopCopCity
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Condland also states [this is] FOIA exempt. - Friedmann's email has also been forwarded to special enforcement section major Bruce and detective Ronald Sluss [both heads in cop city investigations] 2/3
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Fun fact - Signal app messages from any agency are subject to open records requests
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A request was put in all for communications to/from any and all Council Members and Andre Kearns (akearns
@atlantaga
.gov) dated 06/01/2023-07/21/2023 - there were none sent to Kearns in that time frame.
#StopCopCity
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Signed cop city $31m funding agreement between APF and CoA. Obtained via GORA
#FOIAFriday
#FOIA
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Atl text: Photos of defenders from today's action with text superimposed. The text reads: Solidarity Rally Deklab Co Jail 4425 Memorial Rd, Decature. Support those arrested stopping cop city construction this morning! Thursday Sept. 8:00pm
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Open records requests are easy to file from the comfort of your own home!
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APD states they do not have GILEE records in their custody for all current active sworn per GORA request.
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Report on continued lack of transparency with cop city. Would also add the votes for both establishing the community stakeholders committee 21-R-3869 & 21-R-4056 (walk in legislation) appointing the members listed to serve were voted on at the same PSLA committee.
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GA board of public safety meeting notice has been posted. HIGHLY recommend tuning into this if you're able as there's a good chance the recent RICO indictments against DTF/SCC defenders will be discussed. The agenda has not been posted at this time.
#StopCopCity
#atlpol
#gapol
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cop city development briefing dated 9/16/23. Heads up, there are some sad photos of Weelaunee in here
#StopCopCity
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There's a resolution on this agenda to encourage DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond to end the executive order closing Weelaunee People's Park (Intrenchment Creek Park) and to reopen it to the public as soon as possible
#StopCopCity
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APF wants to use football recruitment tactics to market cop city
#StopCopCity
(obtained via GORA)
Via
@TheOnion
: "Atlanta will play all its home games at Georgia Tech until their stadium in Cop City is finished."
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Phase 1 environmental study will be available in "a few weeks", asshole, the vote is in a few days
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Testing out using internet archive to host ORRs. This is our first upload ---- Mayor Dickens Calendar July 2023 : GORA4ORRAU : … via
@internetarchive
#FOIA
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Get ready for more APF copaganda videos from CoA- "In the wake of the social justice movement & high profile incidents of police misconduct like the G. Floyd murder, has the APD training emphasized de-escalation tactics/special efforts to protect the rights/safety of suspects?"
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21-O-0367 has been tabled until the next full city council meeting 9/7 amazing work everyone on the countless hours spent on
#StopCopCity
!!!!
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cop city has always been a revenue scheme
#StopCopCity
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Reposting this bc it said not to distribute this newsletter without prior GILEE approval and f*ck that (obtained via GORA)
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GILEE visited Israel for 2 weeks in June. Group members included the former GBI director, DOJ, GA dept of public safety and the GA PSTC, along with GA police chiefs & sheriffs
5 APD commanders are supposed to visit Israel next week as part of the GILEE exchange program [
#FreePalestine
]
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Open records request response for the environmental assessment report and preliminary geotechnical engineering report (surprise, they "don't have it" and the requestor needs to try other avenues)
this one is fun because APF said explicitly on August 15th that they had already conducted the Phase 1 Study. From a memo to city council leaked to
@mainlinezine
: (normal text is amendment to the ordinance, bold is APF's response).
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@elium2
It was listed in his July calendar we posted earlier
Mayor Dickens' calendar from July with phone call with White House director of intergovernmental affairs Tom Perez on July 10th
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June 25 '21 APF sends a mass email to corporations and the FBI and DHS re: their broken windows. Talk about a police-corporate nexus
#StopCopCity
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🧵 "But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? Then you are a sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero's path."- SWAT Team Leader Development handbook from the National Tactical Officers Association
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This is a very old building site plan, when you hear people talk about explosives/bomb ranges and black hawk helicopter pads this is where it came from (these were all taken off very early on!) Sharing this mostly for the "future urban farm site" (aka prison farm 2.0 cop city)2/3
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