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Atlanta council opens probe after city attorney halts six-figure police consulting contract
Summary
Council members called for a formal review and joint committee reporting after the city attorney disclosed an outside communications consulting agreement tied to police-related work that she said she discovered via an open-records request and immediately terminated.
Council President Marcy Collier Overstreet convened a committee-of-the-whole discussion Feb. 16 after councilmembers raised questions about outside consulting contracts tied to police-related work and a recent referendum. The council voted to move into committee of the whole to examine the contract and related payments.
The item at the center of the discussion was a communications consulting agreement (item 26-0-1110) that had been pulled from the consent agenda. Councilmember Kelsey Bond, who asked that the item be removed, said the recent disclosures had raised “questions about transparency and how these decisions are being made.” Bond added, “I don't think it's appropriate to spend taxpayer dollars on PR for the police department or controversial projects like cop city.”
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