In the Loop
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UGA Employee Arrested for Bringing Gun Into Dorm
A University of Georgia bus driver was arrested last week after leaving his handgun in a residence hall restroom, according to UGA police.
Brett Michael Davis, 30, stopped at Brumby Hall to use the men's room on the morning of Dec. 6, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. He took his gun out of his holster and placed it on the railing of a handicapped stall, then left without the gun.
Fifteen minutes later, he returned for the loaded weapon, but an administrator at the dorm had already seen it and called police, who were on the scene when he returned.
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The Clarke County Jail Is Now Detaining Undocumented Immigrants for Deportation
Photo Credit: Nicole Adamson/file
Athens residents protest the Trump Administration's immigration policies in September.
More than a dozen inmates at the Clarke County Jail have been turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the Clarke County Sheriff's Office reversed its policy in July and started holding undocumented immigrants for ICE.
The Red & Black reported that the reversal came about because of "changes to the Department of Homeland Security’s policy."
“In light of these changes, and in keeping with our role and responsibility for community safety with respect to the detention of individuals with outstanding warrants, we now recognize ICE detainers that are supported by a warrant for arrest or warrant for removal or deportation,” Captain Hayden Hodges of the Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
At ICE's request, the sheriff's office will now detain inmates at the local jail for up to 48 hours after they're scheduled to be released. ICE has made 17 such requests and picked up 13 inmates, Hodges told Flagpole.
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Podcast: James O'Keefe and Project Veritas
In this episode, co-host Baynard Woods talks with Chris Faraone about the horrible history of James O'Keefe and his right-wing sting operation Project Veritas. Faraone is the editor of Dig Boston and the author of I Killed Breitbart.
Democracy in Crisis is a syndicated column that appears in a number of alternative weekly papers and on the Real News Network. This episode was mastered by David Hebden of the Real News.
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Driver Who Killed Athens Cyclist Sentenced to 25 Years
A Madison County woman was sentenced to 25 years in prison for hitting a killing a University of Georgia graduate student and another cyclist while driving intoxicated and distracted, according to the Athens Banner-Herald.
Judge Eric Norris sentenced Whitney Baker Howard, 32, to a total of 31 years. She will serve the last six on probation. Howard was convicted of two counts of felony vehicular homicide and several other charges in October.
Howard's SUV crossed the center line on Athena Drive while answering her phone is September 2016 and hit Ashley Block and Mitchell Enfinger, killing Block and seriously injuring Enfinger.
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Need Legal Advice? Two Free Clinics Are This Week
Superior Court Judge Regina Quick has organized a free legal clinic Saturday.
The Athens Anti-Discrimination Movement will host a "Know Your Rights" workshop at 5:30 p.m. today at the Athens-Clarke County Library to educate people on how to file complaints under the city's anti-discrimination ordinance.
Speakers will include lawyers Nancee Tomilson on civil rights and John Beasly on workplace discrimination, and ACC Attorney Bill Berryman on the "bar admittance" ordinance, which bans bars from denying entry based on factors like race, gender identity or sexual orientation.
Saturday, newly sworn-in Superior Court Judge Regina Quick will host the first of several "Access to Justice Pop-Up Clinics" from 9–11 a.m. at the Rocksprings Community Center.
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Nick Chubb's Fascinating Family History
Photo Credit: UGA Athletic Association
For all of Georgia running back Nick Chubb's accomplishments on the football field, what his ancestors did may be even more impressive.
The Atlanta news website Saporta Report ran a story Monday on the Chubb family history, and it is incredible.
In 1851, eight Chubb brothers, all freed slaves, moved from North Carolina to Madison, GA, about 30 miles south of Athens, then settled near Rome, founding an unincorporated community called Chubbtown.
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Commission Considers Deal to Sell Parking Lot to Hotel Indigo
The Athens-Clarke County Commission will vote tonight on a deal to sell Strong Street and a city-owned parking lot between Strong and Dougherty Street to Hotel Indigo for a development that will include hotel rooms and office space.
The deal calls for ACC to sell the property to Athens Hospitality Holdings LLC, the company that owns Hotel Indigo, for $3 million. Athens Hospitality Holdings would then build a new five-story development on the property that would include 45 hotel rooms; office space for the ACC Economic Development Department; 8,000 square feet of meeting and event space; 7,000 square feet of coworking space where entrepreneurs and startups could rent desks, offices and conference rooms; a street-level restaurant; a rooftop bar and 60 underground parking spots. Strong Street would be closed and converted into a courtyard.
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Podcast: Arrested Inauguration 'Rioter' Speaks Out
In this week's episode, co-host Baynard Woods talks with Elizabeth Lagesse, a defendant in the #J20 case, who is also suing the Washington, DC metro police department in civil court. Read her essay about the case in the New York Times here.
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