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DeKalb children to be adopted for National Adoption Month

By Mark Niesse
Nov 11, 2014

Several adoptions will be finalized Friday at the DeKalb County Courthouse as part of National Adoption Month.

Superior Court Clerk Debra DeBerry said National Adoption Month helps focus attention on children that are in foster care and waiting to be adopted.

The adoptions will be overseen by Superior Court Chief Judge Gregory Adams and Superior Court Judge Tangela Barrie on the fifth floor of the courthouse beginning at 9 a.m.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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