The Atlanta Citizen Review Board, or ACRB, claims it has been blocked from interviewing people in the Fulton County jail system with complaints against the city’s police and corrections officers.
It includes the Atlanta City Detention Center, or ACDC, where the county started renting beds last year after Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat said he needed the additional space to relieve some of the overcrowding at the county jail. Labat ran the detention center before being elected sheriff in January 2021.
In a statement to WABE on May 24, the sheriff’s office denied the board’s allegations and said it remained “committed to transparency.”
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