A Cobb County judge will consider today if a former Kennesaw State University student who sparked a national debate when she was nearly deported last year should enter a pretrial diversion program.
District Attorney Pat Head, whose office administers the program, accepted Jessica Colotl into it last month. Participating would allow Colotl, a 23-year-old Mexico native, to avoid a criminal conviction for felony false swearing for allegedly lying to deputies about her address when they booked her into jail for driving without a license.
Cobb County Superior Court Judge Mary Staley noted in her order that Head apparently did not consult Sheriff Neil Warren about the decision. Warren and Head were ordered to appear along with Colotl. ANDRIA SIMMONS
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A business dean from a Georgia college and two others are the finalists to become president of Gordon College, University System of Georgia officials announced.
The finalists are: Max Burns, business school dean at North Georgia College & State University; Delmas Crisp Jr., the academic dean at Methodist University in Fayetteville, N.C.; and Donna Henry, a dean at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Meyers.
The previous president, Lawrence Weill, stepped down from the Barnesville school June 30. Shelley Nickel is serving as interim president. LAURA DIAMOND
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The state Department of Community Health is searching for consumers -- particularly Medicaid members, families and caregivers -- to participate in focus groups in Marietta to offer feed back on efforts to redesign Medicaid and PeachCare for Kids.
Interested participants can e-mail MyOpinion@dch.ga.gov to pre-register or share opinions at www.dch.georgia.gov/medicaidredesign if they can’t attend. Registration is closing soon, so people are encouraged to register now. The two government health care programs cover 1.7 million Georgians. MISTY WILLIAMS
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