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Georgia March 18, 2019

Ken Howard promoted to GBI Special Agent in Charge

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) announced the promotion of Ken Howard to Special Agent in Charge of the West Metro Regional Drug Enforcement Office (RDEO), based in Carrollton. This…

Chart from the GBI crime lab on Cobb County opioid seizures.

Cobb County criminal justice system July 16, 2018

Cobb County at top of GBI’s list for opioid seizures by law enforcement

In a press release this morning, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation’s crime lab announced that Cobb County was at the top of the list for opioid use in Georgia. The…

Cobb County Police Department July 3, 2017

Register issues statement on controversial Cobb County Police marijuana arrests

Cobb County Police Chief Michael Register issued a statement today regarding the controversial policy under which drivers were charged with DUI despite testing negative for marijuana. Register released the following…

Group photo from Chamber's public safety luncheon

Community Public Safety Events October 7, 2025

Cobb Chamber honors public safety heroes

The Cobb Chamber distributed the following press release about its Public Safety Appreciation Luncheon (all photos provided by the Cobb Chamber): COBB PUBLIC SAFETY HEROES HONORED AT 2025 AWARDS LUNCHEON…

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Immigration October 1, 2025

Arab American students and parents see US schools very differently − political tensions are widening the gap

by Hind Haddad, The Ohio State University and Matthew J. Mayhew, The Ohio State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Sixty-four percent of Arab American…

Justice September 26, 2025

How the First Amendment protects Americans’ speech − and how it does not

by Ray Brescia, Albany Law School, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Imagine a protest outside the funeral of a popular political leader, with some of…

Justice September 24, 2025

Trump’s use of FBI to target ‘enemies’ echoes FBI’s dark history of mass surveillance, dirty tricks and perversion of justice under J. Edgar Hoover

by Betty Medsger, San Francisco State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] As a candidate last year, Donald Trump promised retribution against his perceived enemies….

Drawing of a row of four gunshot holes in a surface

Political Violence September 19, 2025

Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence − what the data shows

by Art Jipson, University of Dayton and Paul J. Becker, University of Dayton, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of…

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Kennesaw September 13, 2025

Sentence handed down in 1997 Kennesaw rape cold case solved via DNA

Cobb District Attorney Sonya F. Allen announced in a public information release that Jerry Lee Pruitt was convicted of kidnapping with bodily injury, rape, aggravated sodomy, aggravated assault, burglary and…

Cobb County Police Department Crime Scene Unit vehicle

Cobb County September 9, 2025

Victim identified in decades-old Cobb cold case

By Mark Woolsey Cobb police Cold Case Unit investigators report significant progress in a more than 40-year-old homicide investigation. Police say the body of an unidentified white female was discovered…

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Cobb County October 13, 2025

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