Facing a lawsuit from opponents of Atlanta’s proposed police and firefighter training center, the city clerk on Wednesday approved a petition that seeks to force a voter referendum on halting the complex.
The approval of the petition, which the clerk had twice rejected over technicalities, clears a significant hurdle for “Stop Cop City” activists, who have been gearing up to gather more than 70,000 signatures by Aug. 15 in order to get on the November ballot.
