COVID-19 infections surging in Georgia immigration detention middle

Nationwide, active COVID-19 cases jumped by more than tenfold in ICE detention centers between December and January, from 299 to 3,022. In all, 14% of the detainee population had COVID-19 at the end of January. Two detainees have died from the disease since December, one at the El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas, and one at Adams County Correctional Center in Natchez, Mississippi.

Meanwhile, the American Civil Liberties Union is suing ICE in federal court, alleging the agency is denying COVID-19 booster shots for its detainees. One of the ACLU’s five medically vulnerable plaintiffs is Marvin Hernandez Villalobo, a 29-year-old man being held at Stewart whose pre-existing conditions put him at higher risk of complications from COVID. The lawsuit says Villalobo, who is obese and experiences breathing problems at night and blood circulation issues, received two vaccine doses last year and has asked for a booster at Stewart but has not been able to get one. He has already been infected with COVID-19 and “wants to protect his health for his partner and children who depend on him.”

CoreCivic, the Nashville-based corrections company that operates Stewart through an agreement with ICE, said this week the detention center is making vaccines and boosters “readily available to all qualified detainees” and educating them about “the benefits of the vaccine from the first day they arrive and are tested for COVID-19.”

ICE declined to comment on the ACLU lawsuit. It also declined to respond to questions emailed to the agency about how many of its detainees have been vaccinated against COVID-19, how many have refused vaccinations and how many have been hospitalized because of the disease. Instead, ICE pointed the AJC to its website, which says the safety of its detainees is one of its highest priorities.

“ICE continues to incorporate CDC’s COVID-19 guidance, which is built upon the already established infectious disease monitoring and management protocols currently in use by the agency,” ICE’s website says.

This is not the first time ICE’s response to the pandemic has come under criticism. On Jan. 26, two whistleblowers who have investigated ICE detention centers on behalf of the Homeland Security Department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties urged the agency to immediately offer detainees COVID-19 booster vaccinations.

“ICE’s failure to implement a plan for providing boosters to detained immigrants is inexplicable in light of available science, government public health recommendations, and their widespread availability,” Drs. Scott Allen and Josiah Rich wrote in their letter, which was made public by the Government Accountability Project. “The failure to act with alacrity has contributed to the number of confirmed COVID cases skyrocketing since the emergence of the omicron variant.”

Last year, the Homeland Security Department’s Office of the Inspector General reviewed records and surveillance video from nine of ICE’s detention centers, none of which are in Georgia. Among other things, the report the office released in September says ICE’s COVID-19 testing for its staff and detainees was insufficient and that ICE personnel and detainees did not consistently wear face masks or socially distance.

ICE concurred with the report’s recommendations, while highlighting that it is encouraging its staff and detainees to wear masks and maintain social distancing. ICE also underscored that it is screening newly arriving detainees and isolating those with symptoms associated with COVID-19.

A majority of the infections at Stewart were detected among detainees as they arrived there, said Matthew Davio, a spokesman for CoreCivic, the company that manages Stewart. As of Wednesday, 134 CoreCivic employees who work at Stewart had recovered from COVID-19, according to the company’s website, and there were six active cases among staff members. The company declined to say whether any of its employees at Stewart have been hospitalized or have died because of the disease.

Franco Clement, a Liberian immigrant who has been detained at the Stewart since March 2020, said in an interview with the AJC that many fellow detainees who have tested positive for COVID-19 have been held together in a neighboring space. Clement said he didn’t feel adequately protected because the same staff who entered that space also visited his own. He also alleged that new detainees who arrived at the center were not tested for the disease.

“The whole place is contaminated,” said Clement, who suspects ICE is undercounting infections in Stewart. “I’m scared for my life.”

Detainees have also reported that Stewart has been inconsistent in how it isolates those with COVID-19, said Erin Argueta, an attorney with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative. Some have been separated for 10 days, she said, while others have been allowed to join certain activities.

In a sworn statement the ACLU shared with the AJC, Stewart detainee Blanca Isabel Rivera Morales said she first asked for a booster in early December and was told it was not available. The 48-year-old woman, who has diabetes and hypertension, received two doses of the Moderna vaccine at Stewart in April and June of 2021.

On Jan. 12, the same day she submitted a written request for a third shot, she experienced a headache, coughed and suffered from body aches. She told medical personnel about her symptoms but wasn’t given a COVID-19 test. It wasn’t until four days later, when Rivera Morales was feeling worse, that a doctor tested her. The result came back positive.

“I feel angry and frustrated,” she said. “If Stewart Detention Center had provided me with the booster shot I had requested, it would have reduced my risk of getting COVID-19.”

By the numbers

Stewart Detention Center in Southwest Georgia is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections amid the spread of the highly contagious omicron variant. These numbers are cumulative from the beginning of the pandemic until Feb. 2:

Confirmed COVID-19 cases

Stewart Detention Center: 1,407

ICE detention centers nationwide: 38,657

ICE detainees who have died after testing positive for COVID-19 while in custody

Stewart Detention Center: 4

ICE detention centers nationwide: 11

Source: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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Lawd it feels like a whole lot of madness has happened these first THIRTY-FOUR DAYS OF 2022 🙃nnBUT! GREAT NEWS! 🥳🥳🥳nn1….

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According to court records, social media posts and his own comments to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Calhoun was among the throng to push deep into the U.S. Capitol, searching for members of Congress and breaking into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, although he told the AJC in an interview two days after the riot that he did not personally enter any office.”},{“_id”:”VTCGLE232ZBRZJBDBS54UAYTQY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643924857079},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The U.S. Department of Justice has charged him with “corruptly” attempting to obstruct Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote and four misdemeanors relating to his alleged entry into the Capitol.”},{“_id”:”UHB33XUOGZEPXLEHSB4HADDNBI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643924010431},”type”:”text”,”content”:”He traveled to Washington with a buddy, Verden Andrew Nalley, a 50-year-old construction worker from Buford, with whom Calhoun had attended an earlier “Stop the Steal” rally at the Georgia State Capitol. 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Calhoun has not been charged with assaulting police, although in a social media post following the riot, he wrote, “We overran multiple police barricades and busted through.””},{“_id”:”EO7RH2DL3VFMRKFNI23O6YC2FA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643830273373},”type”:”text”,”content”:”His alleged role in the Capitol attack came after months of fiery comments he made on Parler, Facebook and Twitter aimed at Democrats, often with promises of deadly violence.”},{“_id”:”VFPLGLCLBJHL5A7QGWC2O6TSOI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643841025077},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“The Democrats want to crush all dissent,” he said Monday. “I speak my mind. I did before, and I do now.””},{“_id”:”ILCJZ4OQPJEHPFCNCAJ5NGL7MM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643816372184},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Calhoun said he never threatened anyone in his social media posts. 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The rules require the bar to ask the Supreme Court to suspend an attorney if there is “sufficient evidence demonstrating that a lawyer’s conduct poses a substantial threat of harm to his clients or the public,” but what constitutes such a threat isn’t clear.”},{“owner”:{“sponsored”:false,”id”:”ajc”},”copyright”:”2022 Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”address”:{“locality”:”Americus”,”region”:”GA”},”caption”:”Attorney William McCall Calhoun wears a GPS ankle monitoring device even as he represents his clients in court. Calhoun is out on bond and faces five federal charges related to the breaching of the Capitol. The most serious is obstructing an official proceeding, a felony that carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years. 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Also last year, the South Carolina Supreme Court suspended the license of a lawyer for repeated racist rants on social media prompting dozens of public complaints.”},{“_id”:”IQ7Y4OT7SRAHTH2NLJWNCYOZNA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643838157968},”type”:”text”,”content”:”For Calhoun, the State Bar will wait until he has his day in court.”},{“_id”:”TC6OCUZDRBBUFCAN4CGRN55WBI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643838157969},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Our rules require that the lawyer be convicted before we act because, just like any other person accused of a crime, our system grants defendants a presumption of innocence,” Mason said.”},{“_id”:”UQXAQAMOGZAMZI3XMMPYX2YYCE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643818786356},”type”:”text”,”content”:”That likely will not come for some time. 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The federal agency declined to comment on precisely what it will do, though it said it is “exploring options that will afford ICE the operational flexibility needed to house the full range of detainees in the agency’s custody.””},{“_id”:”WXRQWBRLIFAIXG2ECO3T4SMOV4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643896896172},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Meanwhile, ICE’s number of detainees has fallen in recent years. As of Jan. 16, the agency was holding 20,886 people across the nation, TRAC’s data shows. That is down from 55,564 in August of 2019, when Donald Trump was president. 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They shared common rooms in the center and slept on blue bunk beds, used communal bathrooms and gathered around octagon-shaped tables topped with chess boards.”},{“_id”:”VQISCHAM4FDDPOYH3GJDOMKOJE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643896896174},”type”:”text”,”content”:”GEO and Charlton signed their expansion agreement after the U.S. Bureau of Prisons decided not to renew its contract with GEO last year for holding federal prisoners at the D. Ray James Correctional Facility in the Folkston area. That decision prompted GEO to announce in July of 2020 that it was laying off 316 employees at the prison.”},{“_id”:”VWDBKSJN5BDMFK5TGNOZFAX5QY”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”OPRE3UVQ6NELLGHEQFV535FJZY”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”From 2021: All ICE detainees moved out of south Georgia jail”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/all-ice-detainees-moved-out-of-south-georgia-jail/XJ6XIUTVBFCN3IALTUCUFUNBX4/”},{“_id”:”UTNIHKBUHNE2JHL3CDN67LERMQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643896896175},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The region’s economy and finances suffered mightily when the prison closed last year, said Folkston City Manager Pender Lloyd. 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ICE’s decision in Ocilla followed a whistleblower complaint and a federal lawsuit alleging a high number of hysterectomies and other invasive gynecological procedures had been performed on Irwin detainees without their informed consent. Also last year, the Biden administration announced it would stop holding ICE detainees at the C. 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They brought a banner that read: “Shut Down Folkston ICE Facility.” For Lovette Kargbo Thompson, an Atlanta organizer with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the expansion amounts to “another broken promise by the Biden administration.” In a visit to Georgia last year, President Joe Biden said, “There should be no private prisons, period, none, period.””},{“_id”:”SBTO5UULKJEOTCZBFBJ62DCD3I”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643896896182},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Much has been done to shut down Irwin, but then to expand on another detention center, it’s like a slap in the face,” Kargbo Thompson said.”},{“_id”:”XHWJ5UUYTJALTMS2AVZVVARFPE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643896896183},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Nilson Barahona-Marriaga was held for 13 months in two other Georgia immigration detention centers.”},{“_id”:”ACJ7BHZILNFP3BFYOFXJFZQ3SU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643896896184},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We still have open wounds,” he said in a statement. 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Joel Ruff, a 23-year veteran of the department, suffered the emergency during his shift, according to police spokesman Tim Lupo.”},{“_id”:”X4ITJE7VKJFSJOXYZPUAMRBMGQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643916833753},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We are heartbroken to share that a member of our Roswell police family, Lieutenant Joel Ruff, unexpectedly passed away,” Lupo wrote in a message that was shared on social media.”},{“_id”:”BQNJEAB5F5AOFNDXYJQBX5GUAM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643916833754},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Ruff, 43, began his law enforcement career with the Police Explorers youth program in 1995 and was sworn in as a Roswell cop in 1998. He was a watch commander for the department’s night shift patrol when he died Thursday.”},{“_id”:”EMDC6TXZOBCMTG3O3SICRGZXZM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643916833755},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Before he ever pinned on his first badge, Lt. Ruff knew in his heart that service to our Roswell community was his calling,” Lupo said in the statement. “He served our community in various roles with utmost dedication for 23 years.””},{“_id”:”RLY5G77BQRBFFELXOG57KACLOM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643916833756},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Police did not say what type of medical episode Ruff suffered or what he was doing when it happened. Messages mourning his death flowed in on the department’s Facebook page, where the news was announced.”},{“_id”:”5JFSLXUJXFDEPPIRH2U3XKQX3Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643916833757},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“The joy and pride he found in leading his men and women was infectious, and there was nothing he would not do or give of himself to see them succeed,” Ruff’s farewell statement said. “His presence is irreplaceable, and his memory unforgettable.”},{“_id”:”2K667SRPZREWJLPFVDEDFZ524U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643916833758},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Lieutenant, rest easy. 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TRAVEL ADVISORY due to this Large Crane on Spring St. at 14th. All lanes are closed. Avoid. Use W. Peachtree St. through Midtown. #ATLtraffic pic.twitter.com/pHrn1JEGI6

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Units were called to the complex shortly after 2 p.m. about reports of a person shot, police call records show.”},{“_id”:”FCR6OT6V4FBX7HSJKEOUEFALKY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643842757281},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Shots were fired when three construction crews working to waterproof a basement unit at the complex were targeted by a resident, Channel 2 Action News reported. The tenant grew impatient with the noise and got into an argument with the workers, police told the news station. He then opened fire on the workers, shooting one of the victims in the chest and the other man in the arm, police told Channel 2.”},{“_id”:”7SZHPCWKSJG3HBWJXMQPBSDZTY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643843998163},”type”:”text”,”content”:”The suspect then chased the other worker through the property before leaving the scene, Channel 2 reported. Police are now working to find the suspect and take him into custody.”},{“_id”:”OHVYYGPHEVA7PI6B64CLXBHKZU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643843998165},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Lt. Ralph Woolfolk, the Atlanta Police Department’s homicide commander, said a 43-year-old man died from his chest wound. The other victim was rushed to a hospital. His condition was not released.”},{“_id”:”ECOXTWVUZZBPXAWBWEPZOQ2S7M”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643841278952},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Alison Court has been the scene of at least three shootings in the past year in which children were caught in the crosshairs of gun violence.”},{“_id”:”AWSEEX2YWNDVNAXN5DHNU63RAI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643843998168},”type”:”text”,”content”:”An 8-year-old boy died after being shot Nov. 13 at the Brentwood Heights apartment complex, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported at the time. A 15-year-old boy was shot when a fight broke out on Alison Court near Delowe Drive on Oct. 7. 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The Alabama-based hate group watchdog Tuesday released its third edition of its census of more than 2,000 Confederate memorials with a renewed call they be removed.”},{“_id”:”PLYOF2LYGFANRJ2KRCS7I3C6HA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476354},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“The legacy of the Confederacy is far more enduring than any memorial ever could be,” said Kimberly Probolus, a fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. “Destroying these monuments and memorials will not erase the legacy of slavery, but abolishing these memorials is a first and essential step in combating the white supremacy values of the Confederacy.””},{“_id”:”XH6VF6OXZJD6RNRRIGFVK7CDQM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476355},”type”:”text”,”content”:”While the report records memorials to the Confederacy in nearly every state (New York has seven), most of the targeted items on the center’s list are concentrated in the states that made up the old Confederacy. 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This year, the equestrian statue of Gov. John B. Gordon, a Confederate general and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, will mark 115 years on the grounds of the State Capitol despite calls from some of Gordon’s own descendants to have it removed.”},{“_id”:”7QSDY4VGPVCX7ALODKZ4O7LM5A”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476363},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Calls to remove Confederate symbols from public lands spiked following the 2015 massacre of nine Black church goers in Charleston by a white supremacist. Many state governments, including the Georgia Legislature, responded by making it more difficult to displace them, with opponents to removals blasting the effort as trying to “erase history.””},{“_id”:”WMZQCNIDBFGQTNJAAZIEJE24AY”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476364},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 2019, the Georgia Legislature passed a law making it difficult for local governments to remove monuments and increased the criminal penalties for anyone caught vandalizing them.”},{“_id”:”B5X66PD6EBCCLDYLR3E6UF5OVI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643731404696},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Rep. Alan Powell, who supported the bill, said the issue has become “too politicized,” and the monuments have nothing to do with white supremacy or honoring the Southern history of slavery.”},{“_id”:”6UE2T4N65JH7TNRRYIRIWAIAOE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643730334559},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Slavery was a cruel institution, but it was there because the South was an agrarian society and we did not have the mechanisms we have now for agriculture,” Powell said. “It was what it was and it wasn’t just here in the South.””},{“_id”:”PLYOF2LYGFANRJ2KRCS7I3C6HA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476354},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“Most of these monuments were erected by the widows of the men who died for the Confederacy on the battlefield,” said the Hartwell Republican. “At the end of the day, it is about trying to erase history.””},{“_id”:”Q4LEUEJDBJFJ7KFA3K5IJUYG3E”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476365},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Nonetheless, some localities have managed to take them down.”},{“_id”:”PLYOF2LYGFANRJ2KRCS7I3C6HA”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476354},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Probolus said six symbols were removed in Georgia in 2021.”},{“_id”:”4KLMQJQE6JEJ3EJEH7X5LDCTVI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643737343598},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“It is very clear that with states with preservation laws, it is tough to have removals,” Probolus said.”},{“_id”:”CEAYAIXEWFG77DBT3G6ESVUQBE”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643722476366},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In 2020, a DeKalb County judge declared a 30-foot Confederate obelisk on the Decatur Square to be a “public nuisance” and ordered it removed and placed in storage. 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It’s a shift that Georgia Power CEO Chris Womack said is being driven by several factors.”},{“_id”:”VH7O6R4225EZZAW2YKTMXMBMRU”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453538},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“There are additional environmental requirements imposed on coal plants, and it makes those units uneconomical, but there’s also the competitiveness and efficiency that we continue to see in renewable resources, particularly around solar,” Womack said.”},{“_id”:”FMUT6YMTOZADZJLT2762IMUXCI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453539},”type”:”text”,”content”:”In this plan, the company said it wants to add more than 2,300 megawatts of new capacity from renewables and that it plans to double its renewable generation by 2035. It also plans to invest in 1,000 megawatts of energy storage systems — such as massive batteries — a move Georgia Power says is necessary to allow solar to reliably power homes when the sun isn’t shining.”},{“_id”:”FOHRYL2R4JFYXBE23HX5KRLGCU”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”P6CZBQN6OZABFKDWGSUT3WODAU”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”Georgia Power continues retreat from coal”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/business/georgia-power-continues-retreat-from-coal/5TJMNYY4KJAITF4CHOXVESE7QE/”},{“_id”:”NF7QW5RHF5B5BLPWCKTL6CAIIQ”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453540},”type”:”text”,”content”:”According to the plan, Georgia Power also proposes adding more than 2,300 megawatts of natural gas generating capacity.”},{“_id”:”R5XRO4VTMRHPXEZJ3L2UBZUH5U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453541},”type”:”text”,”content”:”While environmental groups lauded the shift away from coal, some said the new investment in natural gas made little sense to them. While burning natural gas generates fewer greenhouse gas emissions per megawatt of energy produced than coal, gas-fired plants still send huge amounts of heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere. To keep the global warming temperature increase below 1.5 degrees Celsius and avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the World Meteorological Organization has warned that immediate and large-scale emissions reductions are necessary.”},{“_id”:”7KOKOLLA2NACBMS6O7VTFPU43Y”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453542},”type”:”text”,”content”:”“We welcome Georgia Power’s plans for additional coal retirements, but its proposal to add over 2,300 megawatts of new gas capacity through power purchase agreements is deeply concerning …,” said Jill Kysor, a senior attorney for the Southern Environmental Law Center.”},{“_id”:”S4NLUEJJ2NGXXACZD7QGWMWJUM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453543},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Hearings will be held to discuss Georgia Power’s plan in the coming months, and the PSC is expected to vote on it over the summer.”},{“_id”:”N243UYOKHFBJFEMAOY72B7LSC4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643664453544},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Staff writer Matt Kempner contributed to this story.”}],”display_date”:”2022-01-31T22:11:05.069Z”,”headlines”:{“basic”:”Georgia Power plans to phase out all coal plants by 2035″},”first_publish_date”:”2022-01-31T22:11:05.069Z”,”taxonomy”:{“sections”:[{“path”:”/news”,”parent”:{“default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”name”:”News”,”description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”_id”:”/news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”default”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”LoggedOutMenu”:null,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”TopNav”:null,”TopicsBar”:null,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“site_url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/”,”section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”Atlanta Georgia News main page: Breaking News, Atlanta Weather Forecast, Crime, Politics, GA Schools, Local Articles – Atlanta Journal-Constitution”,”site_title”:”Atlanta GA News | Top News Page”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”News”,”Sponsor”:{“sponsor_url_open_new_tab”:”true”,”sponsor_desktop_banner”:””,”sponsor_mobile_banner”:””,”sponsor_url”:””},”_id”:”/news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”LoggedOutMenu”:[],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”TopicsBar”:[]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:1001,”default”:1001,”SectionMap”:1018,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:1002,”ComposerNav”:1137}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″},{“path”:”/news/georgia-news”,”parent”:{“default”:”/news”},”_website”:”ajc”,”parent_id”:”/news”,”name”:”Georgia News”,”description”:”This page does not exist”,”_id”:”/news/georgia-news”,”additional_properties”:{“original”:{“parent”:{“AmpNav”:”/news”,”default”:”/news”,”BottomNav”:null,”TopNavRedesign”:null,”SectionMap”:”https://www.ajc.com/”,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:”/news”,”ComposerNav”:”https://www.ajc.com/”},”site”:{“section_comments_enabled”:”Yes”,”site_description”:”This page does not exist”,”site_title”:”Georgia News”},”navigation”:{“nav_title”:”Georgia News”},”inactive”:false,”node_type”:”section”,”_website”:”ajc”,”name”:”Georgia News”,”_id”:”/news/georgia-news”,”ancestors”:{“AmpNav”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”default”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”BottomNav”:[],”TopNavRedesign”:[],”SectionMap”:[“https://www.ajc.com/”],”MainMenuRedesign2021″:[“https://www.ajc.com/”,”/news”]},”order”:{“AmpNav”:2012,”default”:2012,”SectionMap”:1152,”MainMenuRedesign2021″:2002,”ComposerNav”:1091}}},”_website_section_id”:”ajc./news/georgia-news”,”type”:”section”,”version”:”0.6.0″}],”primary_section”:{“path”:”/news”,”name”:”News”},”tags”:[{“text”:”environment”},{“text”:”georgia news”},{“text”:”teammike”},{“text”:”georgia-news.ajc”}]},”type”:”story”,”last_updated_date”:”2022-01-31T22:24:21.718Z”,”promo_items”:{“basic”:{“credits”:{“by”:[{“name”:”Elijah Nouvelage”,”type”:”author”}]},”subtitle”:”Plant Scherer”,”width”:5459,”caption”:”Plant Scherer, a Georgia Power plant. 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A man and woman were injured when a gunman opened fire on Peachtree Road near a nightclub, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. Police released still images and surveillance footage of the suspected shooter Friday and asked for the public’s help in identifying the man.”},{“_id”:”TH7EYS6FIVDCBBVK3JWXUEFLAI”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”JZB6TMXYUNH2BKGV4KX6SH3OKQ”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”WATCH: Atlanta police seek suspect in shooting near Buckhead nightclub”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/watch-atlanta-police-seek-suspect-in-shooting-near-buckhead-nightclub/NE2VFRXRAJDG7AW6Y5S5SQNARA/”},{“_id”:”NKALEOU2YNF2HFTOEQ5UKA5B6U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643473508893},”type”:”text”,”content”:”On Jan. 23, dozens of gunshots erupted in the parking lot outside the Loca Luna restaurant and Latin nightclub in the Amsterdam Walk retail development near Piedmont Park. No one was injured at that scene, but multiple vehicles were riddled with bullets.”},{“_id”:”K7IQF3ZENZEONG3OLLQ7DDHBME”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643477961086},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A man was found shot at a nearby gas station and police believe it was connected to the shooting at Loca Luna. No arrests have been made in that shooting.”},{“_id”:”SNDTBVG6IZCLJGBSVCIKAMC6H4″,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643477961088},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Spent shell casings were recovered outside the downtown Chic Restaurant and Lounge on Tuesday.”},{“_id”:”3A6FXD6RVRFB5BGVVCRGUMCQ7Q”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[]},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Dishawn Herndon, a 21-year-old California man, was shot and killed outside the Blue Flame strip club in northwest Atlanta early Wednesday. Atlanta homicide detectives on Friday filed murder charges against the suspected shooter, identified as 25-year-old Dedric Howard.”},{“_id”:”FZ4RJDPQL5GZJGZY3Z26GTC23I”,”additional_properties”:{“comments”:[],”_id”:”RROVEQDAOVGGZBTEAL4FQFYKNQ”},”type”:”interstitial_link”,”content”:”Suspect wanted in fatal shooting at Atlanta strip club”,”url”:”https://www.ajc.com/news/crime/man-killed-in-third-shooting-this-week-at-atlanta-nightclubs/L63WXFG7JRBZNFAUVBIXEM747Y/”},{“_id”:”73KPBTB5YJCSXIAJJYQACA7P6U”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643487447117},”type”:”text”,”content”:”A man and woman were injured after being shot multiple times early Friday at 12th Street and Crescent Avenue, near a popular nightlife district in Midtown. 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The assumption was that these Londoners could learn to farm. As a charity colony, wealthy citizens and London churches sent donations to the Trustees. The colony’s creation and life there under the Trustees is extremely well documented, mostly in records kept by the Earl of Egmont (John Percival). You can find accounts both in book form and now digitized at the Digital Library of Georgia. London newspapers frequently carried news of the colony, and these newspapers are now digitized online. Georgia survived, so it’s time to celebrate once more.”},{“level”:2,”_id”:”RUKPRTC62NCYLBXOIQLEDRG5MM”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643398685560},”type”:”header”,”content”:”Time of birth”},{“_id”:”3JHZ7QGTZVFPVGCFYRG4V2XPWI”,”additional_properties”:{“inline_comments”:[],”comments”:[],”_id”:1643398685561},”type”:”text”,”content”:”Does your birth certificate record the time of your birth? 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