Atlanta needs to provide a way for the public to submit recordings of police use of force for investigations of those incidents, under an executive order signed by the mayor.
The directive came in one of three executive orders that Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms signed shortly after receiving recommendations from a use of force advisory council, according to a news release Thursday.
The council was created on June 4 followed about a week of sometimes turbulent protests in the city sparked by George Floyd’s death under a police officer’s knee in Minneapolis.
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