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Thad Moore

Atlanta

Investigative Reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

@ajc investigative reporter. Past: @postandcourier. DM for Signal. [email protected]

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Articles

  • 2 weeks 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.

  • 2 weeks 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.

  • 2 weeks 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.

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28 Oct 24

RT @bycassidy: After Cobb schools initially refused to ID the company that will be using national intelligence tactics to detect school thr…

Thad Moore
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25 Oct 24

The leader of a secretive company proposing to use student data to detect school threats spoke at the Cobb County school board meeting this month. He wouldn't give his last name or identify his company. Here's who they are: https://t.co/eRKAXseQua

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13 Oct 24

RT @thadmoore: Atlanta’s water crisis took six days to fix in June. A geyser roared in Midtown for days before crews got it under control.…