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A tale of two sides: Citizens vs. Government

By Tammy Joyner
Sept 9, 2016

Citizen's arrest. Treason. Executions at dawn. Sounds like the plot from an 18th-Century novel, right? But it's part of the current tug-of-war between a pair of citizen watchdogs and officials in several metro Atlanta counties over who gets direct access to local grand juries. Read more here.

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Tammy Joyner covers local government in Clayton, Fayette and Henry counties.

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