Atlanta City Councilmember Cleta Winslow has allegedly breached the city’s ethics ordinance for a third time since she took office in 1994, according to a report from the AJC. She’s been offered a $3,000 fine to settle this infraction, which includes using taxpayer money to pay homeless people to work on her 2013 re-election campaign.
Parents and students filled the auditorium of Latin Academy, a charter school in southwest Atlanta, fighting to keep the facility open after one of its founders was accused of stealing more than half a million dollars from it. According to CBS46, one of the the school’s founders, Christopher Clemons, is under investigation, accused by the board of directors of stealing more than $600,000 from the school for personal use and leaving a funding gap.
The general manager of Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport has strongly-worded letter to the TSA over too few screeners and growing passenger wait times at the airport’s checkpoints. According to WSBTV, airport general manager Miguel Southwell has put the TSA on notice, saying the agency has 60 days to get its act together or the airport will bring in its own qualified private contractors to man the checkpoints.
