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Timothy Pratt in Atlanta

Atlanta Police Foundation ignored Cop City records requests, lawsuit claims

Police officers in black riot gear, with black outfits, blue helmets, and clear shields that says POLICE.
Atlanta police officers respond to protesters at the construction site of ‘Cop City’, on 13 November 2023. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPA

A law clinic at the University of Georgia has sued the Atlanta Police Foundation, after the non-profit organization repeatedly ignored records requests from journalists and researchers about its role in backing the controversial police-training center opponents have dubbed Cop City.

The complaint, filed on behalf of the digital news outlet Atlanta Community Press Collective and the Chicago-based digital transparency research organization Lucy Parsons Labs, details how numerous queries to the foundation under Georgia’s Open Records Act have not been answered.

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