The city of Atlanta’s clerk’s office has yet to begin counting and verifying roughly 116,000 signatures of presumed registered voters in protest of constructing the city’s planned public safety training center — dubbed “Cop City” by opponents. That’s as the referendum process is still in legal limbo, pending a federal appellate court ruling regarding some of the issues around timing.
In the meantime, the Atlanta City Council unanimously approved scanning and posting digital copies of the signatures online so everyone can see what those petitions contain.
Mayor Andre Dickens and the city have supported allowing the process to run its course in a transparent manner.
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