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He asked several prominent East Cobb citizens to serve on an advisory board to examine a financial feasibility study. When one of them asked who else was involved in the Cityhood effort, Gavalis declined to reveal them and that individual quit, citing a lack of transparency.
In its release on Friday, the Citybood group included a photo of Gavalis receiving an award from State Sen. Kay Kirkpatrick of East Cobb upon being named the “Distinguished Older Georgian 2021” by the legislature.
The Cityhood bill filed by Dollar (
read our Q and A with him here) and to be taken up in 2022 needs a local sponsor in the State Senate. Kirkpatrick, who represents the proposed East Cobb city, did not co-sponsor the initial bill, saying she received plenty of negative feedback.
This was not a prank, nor will it be treated like one, the district said. Author: Adrianne M Haney Updated: 11:57 PM EST February 24, 2021
COBB COUNTY, Ga. A code red alert that sent classrooms across the Cobb County School district into lockdown earlier this month later turned out to be a false alarm. But now, the school system says police have evidence that someone was able to get into the emergency alert system and purposely activate the false alarm.
The district s emergency alert system, AlertPoint, sent principals and employees an alarm message that immediately prompted all campuses into lockdown status.
UpdatedWed, Feb 24, 2021 at 7:10 pm ET
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A false alarm that forced Cobb County schools into lockdown earlier this month was the result of a “targeted, external” attack on the district’s emergency warning system, according to police and school officials. (Shutterstock/Dmytro Tyshchenko)
COBB COUNTY, GA A false alarm that forced Cobb County schools into lockdown earlier this month was the result of a targeted, external attack on the district s emergency warning system, according to police and school officials. We do not yet know the motives of those attacking the District s AlertPoint system, Cobb County School District spokesperson Nan Kiel said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. However, it appears the crime was committed to disrupt education across the District, create district-wide chaos, and produce anxiety in the District s students, parents, and staff.