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News Articles: GBI

Close-up Photo of a Wooden Gavel. Credit: Pexels

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GBI seeks expansion of subpoena powers

The Georgia Bureau of Investigations would have expanded authority to compel telecommunications and internet companies to divulge subscriber information under legislation moving through the state legislature.

March 14, 2025
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  • Ty Tagami
Belkis Terán, whose son was shot and killed by state troopers while protesting the construction of an Atlanta police training center, speaks at the DeKalb County Courthouse in Decatur, Ga., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024.

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Family of 'Cop City' activist who was killed by troopers files lawsuit

The family of an environmental activist shot and killed by state troopers near the site of a planned Atlanta-area police and firefighter training center activists call "Cop City" has filed a lawsuit against three law enforcement officers.

December 17, 2024
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  • Associated Press
police car lights

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Student fatally shot, suspect detained at Georgia's Kennesaw State University

Officials at Georgia's Kennesaw State University say a student was killed in a weekend shooting outside a residence complex on campus. The campus was briefly locked down after the Saturday afternoon shooting.

May 20, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp during the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 15 until Jan. 19, 2024.

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Kemp suspends South Georgia mayor accused of stealing nearly $65,000 from his town

Gov. Brian Kemp has suspended a south Georgia mayor who was indicted on charges that he stole nearly $65,000 from his town. Kemp on Tuesday issued an order suspending from office Pineview Mayor Brandon Holt until his criminal charges are resolved.

April 11, 2024
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  • Associated Press
This photo combo shows, from left, Travis McMichael, William "Roddie" Bryan, and Gregory McMichael during their trial at at the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. Jurors on Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021 convicted the three white men charged in the death of Ahmaud Arbery, the Black man who was chased and fatally shot while running through their neighborhood in an attack that became part of the larger national reckoning on racial injustice.

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Ahmaud Arbery's killers ask a US appeals court to overturn their hate crime convictions

Three white men are asking a U.S. appeals court to throw out their hate crime convictions in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. The 25-year-old Black man was chased by men in pickup trucks and fatally shot in the streets of a coastal Georgia subdivision in 2020.

March 27, 2024
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  • Associated Press
GBI assisted Ware County Sheriff's Office in 1988 after the body of a young girl was found in the woods. After a tip from the public, it was determined in early 2023 that the child was Kenyatta KiKi Odom.

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Ware County's Baby Jane Doe from 1988 is finally identified. GBI arrests 2 in her death

Authorities have made an arrest in one of Georgia's oldest unsolved murders, that of a 5-year-old girl found encased in concrete and dumped in woods in Southeast Georgia's Ware County in 1988.

 

November 13, 2023
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  • Orlando Montoya
Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum speaks to reporters near the scene of a shooting, May 3, 2023, in Atlanta. Schierbaum said Wednesday, July 5, a fire that destroyed eight Atlanta Police Department motorcycles was among several acts of vandalism in recent days by a group of "anarchists” aimed at stopping construction of a new public safety training center. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz, File)

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Atlanta police chief fires officer after traffic stop led to Black deacon's death

Atlanta's police chief has fired an officer who shocked a 62-year-old Black deacon with a stun gun during a dispute over a traffic ticket, leading to the man's death. Atlanta Police Chief Darin Schierbaum said Tuesday that Officer Kiran Kimbrough didn't follow department procedures Aug. 10 when he didn't wait until a supervisor arrived to arrest Johnny Hollman Sr.

October 10, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Attorney Mawuli Davis, right, speaks to reporters, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, outside the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, while flanked by relatives of Johnny Hollman Sr.

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An autopsy rules that an Atlanta church deacon's death during his arrest was a homicide

An autopsy has found that the death of a 62-year-old church deacon who was electrically shocked by an Atlanta police officer was a homicide. Johnny Hollman became unresponsive on Aug. 10 while being arrested after a minor car crash.

October 10, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Chris Hosey

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New GBI director a familiar face at agency

Gov. Brian Kemp has promoted the head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s Investigative Division to director of the GBI.

July 17, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
Mike Register

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GBI Director Register headed back to Cobb County

The director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation is returning to a former job after less than a year at the helm of the state agency.

June 23, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of R-Calif., speaks as House Minority Whip Rep. Steve Scalise, R.La., left, and Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., listen at a news conference after the House passed the debt ceiling bill at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. The bill now goes to the Senate. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: House passes debt bill to Senate; Police arrest 'Cop City' bail organizers

Thursday on Political Rewind: The House sent a debt ceiling bill to the Senate, though four of Georgia’s representatives voted against it. Meanwhile, the GBI and APD arrested three protestors who were raising bail funds for anti-“Cop City” activists. And election denier Kari Lake leads Georgia’s GOP convention. 

June 01, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump speaks at a news conference on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Decatur, Ga., announcing a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Georgia woman who died after she fell out of a moving patrol car in July 2022, following her arrest. Crump was joined in front of the old courthouse in Decatur, by Brianna Grier's sister Lottie Grier, left, and mother Mary Grier, right.

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Family of Georgia woman who died after falling from moving patrol car files wrongful death lawsuit

The family of a Georgia woman who died last year after she fell from a moving patrol car has filed a civil rights lawsuit. The lawsuit announced Wednesday says sheriff's deputies improperly arrested her and ultimately caused her death.

May 24, 2023
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  • Associated Press
Joel Paez, father of Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, speaks during a press conference, Monday, March 13, 2023, in Decatur, Ga. A press conference was held to give additional autopsy findings in Terán's death. (AP Photo/Alex Slitz)

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DeKalb releases official autopsy for forest protester; family still wants answers

DeKalb County Medical Examiner released the official autopsy report for Manuel Paez Terán, the activist killed during a law enforcement raid in the South Atlanta forest. Attorneys for the family said they need the whole story.

April 21, 2023
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  • Amanda Andrews
The future middle Georgia home of the GBI Gang Task Force, the Bibb County government known by some as "The Castle."

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  • Law

Macon-Bibb County and the GBI ink deal for a regional gang task force headquarters

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is moving the headquarters of the Middle Georgia branch of the state’s Gang Task Force into a fortress-like Macon-Bibb County government building known by many simply as “The Castle.” 

April 21, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
Governor Brian Kemp and First Lady Marty Kemp meet with anti-human trafficking experts.

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Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady on anti-human trafficking efforts: 'There's more we need to do'

Gov. Brian Kemp and first lady Marty Kemp gave an update on Georgia's anti-human trafficking efforts on Tuesday.

April 18, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
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