DeKalb solicitor begins prosecuting traffic cases
Prosecution of DeKalb County traffic citations will be taken over by the county solicitor-general’s office Monday after the district attorney’s office stopped handling those cases.
The office of DeKalb District Attorney Robert James withdrew from DeKalb Recorder’s Court on Nov. 14 after a legal challenge to the DA’s authority to prosecute misdemeanor offenses there.
Solicitor-General Sherry Boston said in a statement that five prosecutors will be located at Recorder’s Court, and the new court will add about 130,000 traffic citations to her office’s annual caseload of about 13,000 misdemeanor cases in DeKalb State Court.
Residents who need to pay a ticket or appear in court for a traffic citation can find information online at dekalbsolicitorgeneral.org starting Monday.
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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.
