ATLANTA -- Following a delay in the approval of a petition for a possible referendum on Atlanta’s planned public safety training center, opponents have filed a writ of mandamus in Fulton County Superior Court asking a judge to force the city’s municipal clerk to approve the petition.
The Cop City Vote coalition announced the action Tuesday after they said the city’s clerk failed to respect a seven-day timeline for approving the petition, filed June 7. According to the group, the clerk denied the original petition on June 14 because it was missing a line requiring Atlanta residents to validate each signature.
The group added the line and resubmitted the petition. According to court documents, the group is arguing it was the city clerk’s responsibility, based on Georgia law, to add the missing line, not the petitioners’.
