Alton Adams, chief operating officer of justice, public safety and technology, says no single initiative will bring Fulton County’s jail population down to pre-pandemic levels.
“But we’re hoping and expecting that together if we do seven or eight of these, that we’ll be able to move the needle in the right direction,” Adams said.
Over the past three years, Adams and his staff have led the push to hire more senior judges, establish a competency court and move certain civil cases from superior court to state court in an attempt to tackle the backlog of cases and subsequent all-time high jail population caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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