A lawyer for the family of Roger Fortson says the bodycam footage of the Florida sheriff's deputy who killed the Black U.S. Air Force airman and police radio traffic reinforce their assertion that the deputy was directed to the wrong apartment while responding to a domestic disturbance call. In police radio traffic that lawyer Ben Crump played at a news conference Thursday, a dispatcher says all they know about the location of the disturbance is "fourth-party information."

A federal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling that a Georgia county illegally discriminated against a sheriff's deputy by failing to pay for her gender-affirming surgery. Houston County Sgt. Anna Lange had sued Sheriff Cullen Talton and the county in 2019 after she was denied coverage.

Georgia requires police officers to be trained in the use of stun guns, but the state has never funded the requirement. As a result, training is put in the hands of local law enforcement agencies.

Georgia requires fewer hours of basic training for law enforcement officers than any state but Hawaii. New recruits need the equivalent of about 10 regular work weeks. Once on the job, they face unpredictable and dangerous situations, and sometimes they subdue people using force that isn't supposed to kill — but does.

The Atlanta City Council voted Monday to approve a $3.8 million settlement with the family of Johnny Hollman, a church deacon who died after being tased by a police officer during a struggle at the scene of a traffic accident.

As unrest continued at college campuses across America on Wednesday, protests flared again at Emory University after social media posts encouraged protesters to gather at the quad in support of the pro-Palestinian movement.

The Georgia Supreme Court issued a ruling in the four-year legal case against former Glynn County Police Chief John Powell, reversing a decision by a trial judge and setting the stage for Powell’s criminal charges to be dismissed.

With a heavier police presence than in 2023, the Tybee Island Police Department made more arrests at this year's Orange Crush gathering.

Though more than 450 people's drug-related convictions were flagged years ago by the former Brunswick area district attorney for possible review because of wrongdoing by GBNET officers, scores of them were never informed of this opportunity to challenge their convictions.

The federal government is investing billions to bolster school safety and mental health resources to combat gun violence. But some sense a disconnect between those programs and what students need.

Eight people were shot including two men who were killed at an unsanctioned public party in a Memphis city park Saturday night, police said.

Local and state officials who were fed up with Orange Crush or never liked it in the first place couldn’t ban the annual rite of spring outright after last year’s traffic and management debacle. But 

Police have identified the assailant who stabbed six people to death at a busy Sydney shopping center before he was fatally shot by a police officer.

More cities are adopting alternative response models, where mental health clinicians respond instead of police. The question of who to send usually rests with 911 workers, who are often overworked and overstressed.

The Macon Bibb County Sheriff’s office is asking people who own doorbell cameras and other surveillance systems to join a new program giving officers easier access to the footage.