Eighteen of the 20 Fulton County Superior Court Judges have received "late fees" — legal speak for fines — in the past five years for failing to properly file ethics disclosure statements, an investigation by The Georgia News Lab, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News has found.
The reasons the judges gave for their failure to file on time varied. Ural Glanville has missed four filing deadlines during his 11 years on the bench. Glanville, an Army reservist, said he was deployed in Afghanistan when he missed the 2012 disclosure deadline. He was still required to the pay $125 fee.
Kimberly Esmond Adams, also a Fulton County Superior Court judge, missed filing six years of personal financial disclosure reports. Adams said she was "mortified" to learn she wasn't complying with disclosure law.
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