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How activists are invoking an obscure Georgia constitutional rule to try to halt ‘Cop City’

by Ryan Zickgraf June 15, 2023June 15, 2023

There’s a good reason why “home rule” wasn’t on the radar of the coalition of volunteers for the Stop Cop City movement, even after almost two years of trying to prevent the city of Atlanta from building a police and firefighter training center in the South River Forest. It’s a little-used clause in the Georgia […]

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