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Committee backs joint policing policy statement, asks staff for redlines and implementation timeline

DeKalb County Employee Relations and Public Safety (IRBS) Committee · January 6, 2026
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Summary

DeKalb County committee reviewed a one-page joint policy statement combining a community liaison program and hate-crime identification training; commissioners supported the concept, requested redlined language, suggested a 180-day implementation/status update and agreed to substitute the statement for two agenda items pending final language.

The IRBS committee discussed a proposed joint policy statement that merges two agenda items: a community advisory/liaison program and a resolution requiring hate-crime identification training for law enforcement.

Chief (DeKalb Police Department) said the document “has the guiding pillars for constitutional policing” and called it a joint approach to community engagement and advisory…

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