A federal judge has appointed a lead monitor with three decades of experience in corrections to oversee a consent decree ...

A court-approved deal was reached between Fulton County and the DOJ to address violence and life-threatening conditions at ...

Fulton County commissioners are asking for ongoing funding and additional funding to its behavior health crisis centers from the state’s Department of Behavioral Health and Development Disabilities.

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat and the county board of commissioners argue that ... “We could do a lot better with respect to mental health populations, if we owned it.

ATLANTA (AP) — Republicans in a Georgia Senate committee advanced a bill Wednesday that would force the city of Atlanta to ...

If obtaining contraceptives and birth control have been a problem in the past, Georgia is offering several programs that can ...

Fulton County and Sheriff Pat Labat last ... instead divert more cases to programs with mental health and economic resources. “Reading the Department of Justice report, what feels like a common ...

Georgia Republicans advance bill to make Atlanta let the Fulton County sheriff use ... to programs with mental health and economic resources. “Reading the Department of Justice report, what ...