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THURSDAY, APRIL 4 - 10, 2024
www.THECHAMPIONNEWSPAPER.com VOL. 34 • NO. 40
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The official legal organ of DeKalb County, Ga.
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LOCAL
Bill for student
athlete mental
health now
targets culture
PAGE 3
LOCAL
Testing of
decades-old
evidence leads
to arrest of two
brothers in rape
cases
PAGE 8
SPORTS
Lakeside makes
playoffs with
comeback win
PAGE 11
LIFESTYLE
Exhibit that puts
world's children
center stage
coming to Atlanta
PAGE 14
DeKalb County School District will be closed on April 8 in anticipa
tion of a total solar eclipse. Photo provided
School District to
close for solar eclipse
BY CHRISTINE FONVILLE
CHRISTINE@DEKALBCHAMP.COM
H undreds of parents, students, and staff members are
sounding off in the comment section of a DeKalb County
School District post about school being closed on April 8 in
anticipation of a total solar eclipse.
Officials with the DeKalb County School District (DCSD)
announced on March 20 that the school district would be closed
on April 8, extending an already-planned spring break by one
day.
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DeKalb County will host its 35th annual Senior
Olympics at various locations around the county.
File photo
Senior Olympics
set to return
BY JAY PHILLIPS
JAY@DEKALBCHAMP.COM
Registration is now open for the
annual DeKalb County Senior Olympic
Games, which will return for the 35th
year May 6-17 for those 50 and older.
The kickoff for the games will
begin at 9 a.m. on May 6 at Exchange
Intergenerational Recreation Center,
2771 Columbia Drive, Decatur.
The Olympics-style sports festival
will include free-throw basketball,
bowling, track and field, billiards,
swimming, table tennis, line dancing,
water volleyball, and other athletic
events which will be held at venues
DeKalb DA to continue fight
with state lawmakers
BY JAY PHILLIPS
JAY@DEKALBCHAMP.COM
Officials from DeKalb County
District Attorney Sherry Boston's
office and Public Rights Project
stated they plan to refile a lawsuit
challenging the Prosecuting
Attorneys Qualifications Commission
(PAQC) after Senate Bill 332 was
signed into law by Gov. Brian Kemp
on March 13.
Senate Bill 92—which created
the PAQC—stated that members of
the PAQC would be appointed by
Kemp and other partisan officials.
The PAQC could then audit district
attorneys and solicitor generals in
Georgia and discipline or remove
them from office before the end of
their elected terms.
The bill was halted when the
Georgia Supreme Court ruled that it
didn't have the authority to review
the commission's rules. Senate Bill
332 gave the PAQC the authority
to create and adopt its own rules -
bypassing the reason Senate Bill 92
failed.
In August, Boston joined district
attorneys Jonathan Adams (Towaliga
Judicial Circuit), Jared
Williams (Augusta Judicial Circuit)
DeKalb County District Attorney Sherry
Boston said she plans to continue fighting
the Prosecuting Attorneys Qualifications
Commission. File photo
and Flynn BroadyJr. (Cobb Judicial
Circuit) in a lawsuit against state of
Georgia's Senate Bill 92. Adams said
SB 92 would create a method to
remove local prosecutors with which
the state disagreed.
Proponents of the bill argued
that district attorneys in Georgia
who failed to do their jobs
effectively are to blame for rising
crime rates. They have also focused
on officials such as the Glynn County
district attorney who was originally
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