Nearly 300 pages of Atlanta’s ‘Cop City’ records released after first-of-its-kind ruling

Atlanta Police Foundation forced to disclose a year after a lawsuit, and could have implications for other cities

More than a year after a digital news outlet and a research group sued the Atlanta Police Foundation for allegedly violating Georgia's open records law, the foundation has sent plaintiffs nearly 300 pages of records linked to its role as the driving force behind the police training center known as Cop City".

The outcome opens the door to what we want; it's a guide stone for getting records from police foundations, so they can't be a black box", said Matt Scott, executive director of Atlanta Community Press Collective (ACPC), an Atlanta-based digital news outlet and one of two plaintiffs in the case.