FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — The Atlanta City Detention Center could be changing hands.
On Monday, the Atlanta City Council is expected to take a final vote on selling the city’s municipal jail to the Fulton County Government.
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The vote comes after the Fulton County Board of Commissioners and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens began negotiations to buy and sell the Atlanta jail in a move to help with overcrowding at the county jail on Rice Street.
Dickens offered to sell the jail to the county for $68 million, which Fulton County Chair Robb Pitts accepted, but the city council wanted to weigh in first.
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“It’s a perfect solution to a problem that we have, it’s a mutual problem that we have because the overwhelming majority of our detainees are in fact residents of the city of Atlanta,” Pitts said.
Right now, Fulton County already leases some beds at the city jail.
At Monday’s meeting, the city council is expected to vote on whether or not to sell the jail to the county.
The council is also set to discuss creating a new police zone, aimed at reducing the sizes of each zone to make htem easier to patrol.
Flexible water payments for the city’s utility customers is also on the agenda, as well as a discussion of new limits to the use of autonomous weapons systems.
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