Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Latest reporting from the Local Government desk.
Local Government
DeKalb County's eviction filing rate reached 25% from June 2025 through May 2026, with one in four renter households facing a filing, as metro Atlanta posted the highest eviction rate among all regions tracked by Princeton's Eviction Lab.
Local Government
DeKalb County's eviction filing rate reached 25% from June 2025 through May 2026, with one in four renter households facing a filing, as metro Atlanta posted the highest eviction rate among all regions tracked by Princeton's Eviction Lab.
DeKalb County's eviction filing rate reached 25% from June 2025 through May 2026, with one in four renter households facing a filing, as metro Atlanta posted the highest eviction rate among all regions tracked by Princeton's Eviction Lab.
Local Government
The Georgia Department of Audits and Accounts has designated DeKalb County School District as "High Risk" after auditors flagged the same payroll-control issue in the School Food Nutrition program three years running, triggering new state oversight under recently enacted House Bill 1164 and Senate Bill 472.
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The DeKalb County Public Library Board of Trustees meets Monday, Aug. 17, in Decatur with construction updates on the Brookhaven and Doraville branches on the agenda; residents can request a remote listening link by emailing the library director by noon that day.
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Danny Ross, who drafted Dunwoody's first ethics ordinance in 2008 as a founding council member, published a letter challenging whether the city's GMA "City of Ethics" designation still reflects how the current council governs.
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A 2025 policy expanding DeKalb County police pursuits to nonviolent property crimes drove chases from 17 to 99 in one year, with 28 injuries. A fatal April 16 chase that killed a grandmother in a school zone violated the department's own rules and faces Internal Review Board scrutiny.
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DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson appointed 26-year department veteran Melvin K. Carter as chief of DeKalb County Fire Rescue on Aug. 5, putting a lifelong county resident atop the agency that responds to emergencies in Dunwoody and Brookhaven.
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Brookhaven's five-story City Centre at 4001 Peachtree Road NE is now serving as the city's permanent home, with 60 percent of the $78 million mass timber building open to the public for events, meetings and daily use.
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DeKalb County commissioners voted 6-1 on July 30 to extend the data center moratorium through March 2027, blocking new applications on Perimeter corridor land near Dunwoody and Brookhaven while the county writes zoning rules.
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Founding Dunwoody City Council member Danny Ross has launched a public petition at DunwoodyStormwater.org demanding transparent and consistent stormwater management across all city neighborhoods, following findings that the city used privately owned Kingsley Lake as a stormwater outlet without permits.
Local Government
Founding Dunwoody City Council member Daniel D. Ross says open records requests turned up no permits or agreements authorizing the city's use of privately owned Kingsley Lake as a stormwater outlet, while resident Zachary Humphries argues taxpayers should own the lake if they pay to fix its collapsed spillway.
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The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act took effect July 11, expanding multifamily financing and capping institutional investor home purchases. DeKalb County CEO Lorraine Cochran-Johnson says the county intends to pursue opportunities the law creates, as more than 2,300 apartments move through the Dunwoody-Brookhaven development pipeline.
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A DeKalb County Sheriff's Office sergeant was fired and arrested on a felony charge after an internal investigation found he used Flock Safety license plate reader technology without authorization, raising accountability questions about the countywide ALPR network the county is expanding under an $18.9 million initiative.
Local Government
DeKalb County crews will replace a half-mile of water main along Winters Chapel Road in north Dunwoody starting Monday, Aug. 10, with weekday construction lasting through November; residents can ask questions at a virtual community meeting Tuesday, July 28.
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