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News Articles: camden county

A rendering of the proposed spaceport in Camden County, Ga.

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Attorney general, grand jury lean on Camden to release spaceport records

County officials continue to keep secret many documents and correspondence related to the $12 million Spaceport Camden project.

March 15, 2023
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  • Mary Landers
In this screenshot taken from Camden County Detention Center surveillance video provided by attorney Harry Daniels, jailers beat detainee Jarrett Hobbs at the facility, in Georgia, on Sept. 3, 2022.

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Charges dropped against detainee beaten inside Georgia jail

Prosecutors have dropped charges of assault, obstruction and other counts against a Georgia jail detainee after security camera video showed him being beaten by deputies. The decision to dismiss the charges against Jarrett Hobbs came several months after three Camden County sheriff's deputies were arrested on battery charges in the Sept. 3 jail beating.

February 23, 2023
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  • Associated Press
This image shows a part of the proposed Spaceport in Camden County, Ga.

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Georgia Supreme Court upholds local referendum opposing Spaceport Camden

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling verifying the validity of a voter referendum in Camden County last March that rejected plans to build a commercial spaceport.

February 07, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Test from Camden County in 2017. (Spaceportcamden.us)

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Spaceport project in limbo but spending continues

Camden County’s proposed spaceport project was grounded before it ever saw a commercial rocket lift off, with voters rejecting the idea in a March 2022 referendum. But while the project has consumed $12 million in tax dollars, the money keeps flowing, mainly for attorneys to represent the county in four spaceport-related lawsuits.

January 06, 2023
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  • Mary Landers
In this screenshot taken from Camden County Detention Center surveillance video provided by attorney Harry Daniels, jailers beat detainee Jarrett Hobbs at the facility, in Georgia, on Sept. 3, 2022.

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3 jail guards in Georgia charged in beating of detainee

Sheriff's officials say three jail guards in Georgia have been charged with battery and violating their oath of office in the beating of a detainee at a county jail that was recorded by security cameras.

November 22, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Attorney Harry Daniels speaks during a news conference Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022, in Woodbine, Ga., calling for the firing and arrests of Camden County sheriff's deputies recorded by security cameras repeatedly punching jail detainee Jarrett Hobbs.

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Attorneys demand arrest of guards in jail detainee's beating

Attorneys for a Georgia jail detainee are demanding the firings and arrests of guards recorded by security cameras repeatedly punching the inmate in his cell. Lawyers and two sisters of Jarrett Hobbs, a 41-year-old Black man from North Carolina, spoke to reporters Wednesday in Camden County near the jail where the beating happened Sept. 3.

November 17, 2022
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  • Associated Press
In this screenshot taken from Camden County Detention Center surveillance video provided by attorney Harry Daniels, jailers beat detainee Jarrett Hobbs at the facility, in Georgia, on Sept. 3, 2022.

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Georgia agency to investigate jailers who punched detainee

State criminal investigators in Georgia are launching an investigation into a September confrontation at a county jail in which security cameras recorded guards repeatedly punching a detainee in the head and neck.

November 16, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Megan Desrosiers holds the stack of petitions collected to force a referendum on the purchase of land for Spaceport Camden. Credit: One Hundred Miles

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Georgia Supreme Court to weigh validity of Spaceport Camden vote

In 2019, spaceport opponents began collecting signatures. By December 2021, after the county had spent more than $10 million on the spaceport plan, petitioners reached their 10% goal, leading to a March 2022 referendum that blocked the plan. Now the state's high court is set to determine whether the vote will stick.

October 05, 2022
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  • Mary Landers
An illustration of the proposed Camden Spaceport site

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Georgia’s public referendum law at stake as spaceport fight reaches state Supreme Court

Union Carbide’s decision to back out of a land deal for a Camden County spaceport has sparked more lawsuits ahead of next month’s Georgia Supreme Court hearing of a challenge to a public vote that has scuttled the project for now.

September 20, 2022
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  • Stanley Dunlap
Latoya James

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Family alleges civil rights violation in Camden County raid

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire as sheriff's deputies executed a drug warrant at her cousin's home have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the deadly raid violated the slain woman's civil rights.

August 22, 2022
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  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Associated Press
Latoya James

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Family seeks federal inquiry into Georgia drug raid death

The family of a Georgia woman killed by gunfire last year as sheriff's deputies executed a search warrant at her cousin's home are asking the Justice Department to investigate. Attorneys for 37-year-old Latoya James' family say the case bears striking similarities to the 2020 drug raid that resulted in the death of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

August 17, 2022
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  • Associated Press
This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launch pad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County, Ga.

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Georgia county files suit to force land sale for spaceport

A Georgia county has filed a lawsuit that seeks to force a company to sell it 4,000 acres on which the county has long planned to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

July 28, 2022
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  • Associated Press
fani willis buddy carter and camden spaceport

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Political Rewind: Fulton DA disqualified; Camden Spaceport Saga; Carter's no vote on gay marriage

Tuesday on Political Rewind: A judge ruled that Fani Willis cannot investigate state Sen. Burt Jones in the Fulton County special grand jury investigating the 2020 election. Plus, courts have upheld subpoenas for false electors and Rep. Jody Hice. Meanwhile, Rep. Buddy Carter voted against codifying gay marriage. 

July 26, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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This artist's sketch provided by Spaceport Camden shows the launch pad complex of the proposed Spaceport Camden in Camden County, Ga.

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Georgia spaceport land deal is off, site owner says

The owner of a 4,000-acre industrial site says it has ended a longstanding agreement to sell the property to a Georgia county seeking to build a launch pad for commercial rockets.

July 22, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Polling place in Camden County

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Georgia Supreme Court allows certification of Spaceport vote

The Georgia Supreme Court dealt another blow to Camden County’s spaceport plan when it denied the county's request to stop the certification of Tuesday’s referendum in which voters roundly rejected the spaceport.

March 11, 2022
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  • Mary Landers
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