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Sheriffs enter pact to alleviate jail overcrowding By SHELBY ISRAEL shelby@appenmedia.com
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The Women of UGA Leadership Council takes a photo with the team mascot, Hairy Dawg, Nov. 19. The alumni group raised over $10,000 for Embark@UGA, a campus-based initiative for students experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity.
Alumni flood City Springs for Hairy Dawg By HAYDEN SUMLIN hayden@appenmedia.com SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. — Hundreds of families and Dawgs fans from Metro Atlanta packed into the City Springs Studio Theater Nov. 19 for Cookies & Cocoa with Hairy Dawg, an annual event put on by one of the University of Georgia Alumni Association’s affinity groups — Women of UGA.
The atmosphere was overwhelmingly optimistic after the Bulldogs defeated the University of Tennessee Volunteers 38-10 in their last conference game of the 2023 season. The annual Cookies & Cocoa event has become a tradition in many Metro Atlanta households, according to Women of UGA councilmember Mandy Rodgers. Women of UGA have put on the
event every year since 2017. While last year’s event was held at Villa Christina in Brookhaven, this year’s event was held at City Springs for the first time. “We do try to look at the map and make it as central as possible, which is hard because we have such a big alumni group,” Rodgers said.
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FORSYTH COUNTY, Ga. — The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is housing Fulton County Jail inmates as the Atlanta facility on Rice Street struggles to manage a 100,000-case backlog and overcrowding. Forsyth County Sheriff Ron Freeman and Fulton County Sheriff Pat Labat signed an agreement in April that allows up to 70 male Fulton County inmates to be boarded at the Forsyth County Jail on Veterans Memorial Boulevard. “Fulton County’s court system is suffering a 149,200-case backlog from COVID-19 induced court closures, which, at times, has caused the Fulton County Jail to reach and exceed its maximum capacity,” the agreement reads. The Fulton County Sheriff’s Office pays $75 per inmate each day they are accommodated. The cost covers meals and medical services. Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Stacie Miller said the Forsyth County Jail housed 23 Fulton inmates in August, 26 in September and 23 in October.
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