Item 7.2 came off Monday's agenda, but it isn't dead. The city had scheduled a silent consent vote on a contract that had already been replaced by a newer version the City Attorney never reviewed. Two residents spoke. A third warned about data centers, which is where this data would actually live. And the City Manager has now promised in writing, to the full Council, that it returns as a regular agenda item with public comment.

On the night of Monday, July 27th, Woodstock City Council votes on a three year contract connecting our police department's records to a platform run by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office and built by Peregrine Technologies, a San Francisco company valued at $6.8 billion. The contract has no stated price for years two and three. The County sets it, with no cap and no Council vote. It renews itself automatically. It contains no retention limit, no audit requirement, and no d

Three Cherokee County deputies (Cynthia Jodesty, Lt. Chris Bryant, Sgt. Mike Creeden) were arrested and fired in two weeks for misusing the sheriff's Flock license plate database for non law enforcement reasons. The self audits deserve credit, and the public deserves full answers. The case mirrors a wider metro Atlanta pattern of surveillance misuse, and it lands as Woodstock weighs a roughly $94,000 Samsara tracking and camera contract for 40 police vehicles.

If you have watched ICE pull a mother out of her home and felt that mix of fury and helplessness, the sense that something is deeply wrong and you are not sure what one person can do about it, this is for you. Because right now there is something you can do, and it takes about five minutes.

There is no shortage of fights right now. Congress is home on April recess, which means this is one of the highest-leverage weeks of the entire year for constituent pressure. And while Georgia's legislative session ended April 2 at Sine Die, the action has not stopped. Three harmful bills that passed both chambers are sitting on Governor Kemp's desk, and he has until May 12 to sign, veto, or allow them to become law without his signature. Here is where things stand as of tod

Two of us stood quietly at the entrance with small signs: "No ICE in Cherokee," "Abolish ICE Now," and "What Would Jesus Do?" featuring Jesus flipping tables. Some people who arrived scoffed. Some mocked. I smiled and said, "Hope you have the day you voted for." When that lands wrong, it is because people know, somewhere inside, that these policies cause real harm. They just want the harm inflicted on others.