The City of Decatur presented findings from its recently completed Diversity Project at the Aug. 4 City Commission work session. You can check out those findings in a PDF available here. The full written report is being finalized and will be available later this month. You can also watch the taped session here. Christian Perry, a master’s candidate in public studies at Georgia State University and Decatur High School graduate worked on the project. Of note: the city’s white population increased overall from 1990 to 2010, while the black population declined from 40 to 20 percent during the same time period. The number of same sex households in Decatur is four times the national average. In 2010, 3.5 percent of the city’s households were same sex, compared with less than one percent nationally.
An Atlanta police officer who pleaded guilty to DUI in 2012 was charged with the same offense this past Sunday, according to a report from our affiliate CBS46. According to a police report from Georgia State Patrol, Officer Christopher Niezurawski was pulled over after a trooper saw him make a right turn from Habersham Road Northeast to Piedmont Road Northeast without stopping at a red light.
An Atlanta school bus driver used pepper spray to break up a fight Wednesday, according to a report from WSB. According to Atlanta Public Schools, the altercation began at about 4 p.m. during afternoon dismissal from Maynard Jackson High School. The school’s assistant principal was breaking up a fight on the bus when the bus driver used pepper spray. Several students, along with the assistant principal, were treated as a result of the spray. Ten students were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and the bus driver, who was new to the job, has been referred to human resources, according to APS.