In an Oct. 21, 2024, letter, Labat wrote he was seeking for the county to provide legal counsel to resolve the issues between the sheriff’s office and the board of commissioners.

Fulton County Sheriff Patrick Labat speaks during a press interview at the district attorney’s office in Atlanta on Friday, July 12, 2024. Public safety officials presented findings from a ...

More than 60 people who were being held in Fulton’s jail died between 2009 and October 2022, the highest total for any jail in Georgia during that time, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found.

Fulton County, Georgia, and its sheriff's office violated the constitutional rights of people housed at the county jail, according to a new report released by the Justice Department on Thursday ...

On Aug. 24, 2023, Trump arrived at the Fulton County Jail to surrender to law enforcement in connection with 2020 election fraud charges, the sheriff’s office said in a news release that day.

Nation Georgia Republicans advance bill to make Atlanta let the Fulton County sheriff use its jail Feb. 5, 2025 at 3:07 pm Updated Feb. 5, 2025 at 4:06 pm ...

The US Justice Department has entered a court-enforceable agreement with Georgia’s Fulton County over jail conditions that federal investigators have described as inhumane, violent and unsanitary.

Fulton County now houses fewer than 2,500 detainees, with about 1,600 at the main jail and the rest at other facilities, according to sheriff’s office data. Sixteen percent of people have ...