Tag Archives: CALEA

Videos: farewell Jason Davenport, approval limits, CALEA, personal care home @ LCC 2018-09-11

The county held

a ceremony for departing Lowndes County Planner Jason Davenport.
I asked the person sitting in his former seat,

Engineering/Planning Technician Molly Stevenson,
if she was confirmed yet.
She would only say it was confirmed that she was sitting there right then.

They also had a

911 CALEA Re-Accreditation Presentation
and the Chairman recognized

Leadership Lowndes.

Citizens

Bob Harlan
and

Fred E. Blanton Jr
complained about road conditions.
I

thanked Utilities Director Steve Stalvey for sending
information about recent Lowndes County sewage spills (two in July),
and I thanked him advance for sending the NPDES-permit-required followup testing
(not yet received).

On
the REZ-2018-16 Stovall rezoning,
the applicant revealed the reason for the previous restriction
when Continue reading →

Videos: Naylor Boat Ramp, approval limits, CALEA, personal care home @ LCC 2018-09-10

News about
the Naylor Boat Ramp in

an Engineering Projects Report!
Chad McLeod also reported about the 911 center,
the North Lowndes Soccer Complex,
the fire warehouse classroom,
the animal shelter,
and
the courthouse renovation project,
all still to be completed from SPLOST VII funds, which run out next year.
Even with that three-and-a-half-minute special engineering report, the whole meeting took ten minutes Monday morning.

Also not on the agenda,
HR has a new employee.
Also there will be a new traffic signal.

Should

the County Manager and the Finance Director
be able to approve Continue reading →

CALEA, personal care home, and county manager approval limit @ LCC 2018-09-10

Should

the County Manager and the Finance Director
be able to approve

2.5 times as much in dollar value
on budgeted items as they currently can?

Also a rezoning
to reconfigure for two parcels
and another
to permit personal care homes,
plus a
911 CALEA Re-Accreditation Presentation
are
on

the agenda for 8:30 AM this morning at the Work Session
and tomorrow evening’s voting Regular Session.

The rezoning
REZ-2018-16 Stovall, 6002 N. Oak St. Ext.
to permit personal care homes is

“as a result of a potential buyer’s interest in developing the property into an assisted living facility”.
This same Tuesday, the same property is on

ZBOA’s agenda
for a variance on the buffer condition.

The 2015-03-10 agenda for the earlier rezoning from R-21 to C-G, Well & Other did not say anything specifically about private care facilities,
nor did the Continue reading →

CALEA presentation —Chief Frank Simons @ VCC 25 August 2011

The Valdosta Police Department got not only CALEA accreditation but
an award, again for several years running.

First the council voted on the award.

Here’s

Part 1 of 6:

CALEA presentation —Chief Frank Simons @ VCC 25 August 2011 Part 1 of 6:

Regular Session, Valdosta City Council (LCC),

Valdosta, Lowndes County, Georgia, 25 August 2011.

Videos by Gretchen Quarterman for LAKE, the Lowndes Area Knowledge Exchange.

Then Police Chief Frank Simons introduced the subject.

Here’s

Part 2 of 6:

Continue reading →

Citizens can video police in Atlanta

Ride your bicycle, have to show a drivers’ license, get your camera stolen
by police?
Not in Atlanta any longer!

Bill Rankin writes some good news in the AJC,

APD won’t hinder citizens who videotape cops,

Faced with complaints from a citizen watchdog group, Atlanta police will
stop interfering with people who videotape officers performing their
duties in public, an agreement reached with the city Thursday says.

The settlement, which also calls for the city to pay $40,000 in damages,
requires city council approval.

The agreement resolves a complaint filed by Marlon Kautz and Copwatch
of East Atlanta, a group that films police activity with cell phones
and hand-held cameras. The group has volunteers who go out on patrols
and begin videotaping police activity when they come across it.

That’s

Copwatch of East Atlanta; here’s their

press release, including video of the incident.