About the Authors
Isaac Sabetai is an audience specialist with the state and federal politics team. He builds data visualizations and other projects that help explain what Georgia lawmakers are doing and how the state is or isn't changing.
Emily Merwin DiRico has been doing information design and news application development at the AJC since she arrived as a summer intern in 2009. Her mission is to help readers understand complex data and how it affects them.
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An Atlanta church is being sued by a former member who alleges she and others were trafficked as part of its youth ministry program.
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Chase that killed bystander in Atlanta's Little Five Points spurs calls for 'immediate' Georgia State Patrol reforms.
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Atlanta chief backs citizen review of police deadly force
Follow on to an AJC investigation into failure of citizen review board to probe cases of police deadly force. Police chief supports its oversight role and pledges cooperation.
TORPY: Want to win bigly in court? Get jurors with MAGA hats
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Films starring Mark Wahlberg and Nicolas Cage began production in Georgia within the past month.