In July 2023, the Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into jail conditions in Fulton County, citing violence, filthy living quarters and the in-custody death of a man whose body ...

Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat issued a statement Monday morning noting that conditions at the Fulton County Jail "continue to deteriorate" following the release of a Justice Department report ...

One year after the Senate Committee on Public Safety chaired by Majority Whip Sen. Randy Robertson (R-Cataula) held a series ...

Fulton County commissioners voted on Wednesday to allocate additional funding to staff Sheriff Patrick Labat’s office, ...

While the funding passed, some commissioners took issue with language in the resolution that accuses the sheriff’s office of ...

At Wednesday’s Fulton County Board of Commissioners’ meeting, a resolution passed which approved a new overtime budget for ...

Fulton County on Wednesday approved additional funding to pay overtime for jailers who work for the Sheriff’s Office and to support efforts to hire and retain them.

Inmate Edward Cherry stabbed fellow inmate Leonard Fortner to death with a shank inside the jail last April. The lawsuit accuses Fulton County officials of ignoring the conditions inside the jail ...

Lt. Helio Garcia was killed in the crash on April !5, becoming his department’s first officer killed in the line of duty.