Thad Moore

1 month ago | ajc.com | Thad Moore

Last fall, Superintendent Christopher Ragsdale hired ex-intelligence officers to gather information on students, including scraping“social media down to raw data,” as part of a broader plan for district safety. Intelligence gathering is “the preeminent piece of the strategy moving forward,” Ragsdale told the school board in October.

1 month ago | ajc.com | Thad Moore

There’s big business in the new normal of school safety. The state is giving local school districts more than $450 million in grants to pay for security upgrades, a funding stream that began in 2018 after the deadly Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. The influx of money has paid for a broad array of new technology across Georgia: weapons detectors and vape sensors, instant background checks for visitors and panic buttons for teachers.

1 month ago | macon.com | Thad Moore

There's big business in the new normal of school safety. The state is giving local school districts more than $450 million in grants to pay for security upgrades, a funding stream that began in 2018 after the deadly Parkland, Florida, high school shooting. The influx of money has paid for a broad array of new technology across Georgia: weapons detectors and vape sensors, instant background checks for visitors and panic buttons for teachers.

Jan 30, 2025 | ajc.com | Thad Moore

Gwinnett-based U.S. Auto fitted its cars with GPS trackers and kill switches that could remotely disable them with the click of a button. The threat of a car that wouldn’t start was a powerful tool to make borrowers pay. And it was power, federal authorities say, that wasmisused thousands of times. Its system repeatedly triggered the kill switches, even when borrowers paid on time, according to an analysis of the company’s internal data by the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Jan 7, 2025 | macon.com | Thad Moore

The onetime west Georgia resort town of Warm Springs is being sued by its former police chief, who alleges the city's leaders fired him and suspended virtually the entire police force with a "stunning lack of transparency and oversight."Emilio Quintana, who was fired as chief in June, said the city had undertaken an "unprecedented effort to overturn its police department" two years after he was hired but gave few concrete reasons why.