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January 20IS —ALL FOR ADC 300 m UBRARr -UGA 320'S JACKSON S ST APER PROJECT ATHENSGA3060 S 2 T 5002 I5|jj i! i, - l . i ^! l|llill|,|i|,|,il||ll| i |i||,|,|i||||,i,||i « |,|, ' | «‘ || i "Faithfully Reporting on What Matters" JANUARY 2019 • VOLUME 25 NUMBER 1 CARROLL COUNTY, GEORGIA'S ONLY LOCALLY OWNED LOCALLY OPERATED NEWSPAPER www.starnewsgaonline.com Star N ew S monthly traditional print publication/Star.News Online daily local news Business owners be aware: Unemployment tax rate notices will no longer be mailed Notices available online now for first time from press release For years, the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) has mailed the notices each December notifying business owners of their tax require ments for the next year. GDOL has switched this year to online notices rather than mail more than 250,000 documents at a cost of about $130,000 a year. Tax rates determine the amount of unemployment taxes an employer will contribute to the trust fond in the coming year. The trust fond is used to pay unemploy ment insurance benefits to individuals separated due to not fault of their own. The GDOL employer portal can be found at https://dol.georgia.gov Employers must be registered on the Employer Portal to gain access to tax rate information and other online services. Watch for additions of more employer information on the Employer Portal in 2019. Owned Business In NEW FEATURE “Women Owned Businesses in West Georgia” Pages 4 & 5 NEWS RECAP find out what you missed at www. starnewsgaonline. com Page 3 Restaurant inspections Who passed? Who failed? Where are you eating this week? Marriage Licenses • Births Pistol Permits • Cattle Sales Page 25 LIKE US at facebook.com/ StarNewsGaOnline WestlGeorgia mi M County commission formally requests legislature to break Carroll County off from the live county Coweta Judicial Circuit to form a new, smaller circuit Carroll County Sheriff Langley and Coweta Circuit District Attorney Herb Cranford support smaller circuit: more funding for Carroll would result Current circuit comprised of Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Meriwether and Troup counties by Prissi Sullivan All commissioners were present, as was the Reporter chairman. At this meeting, Commissioner for The Carroll County Board of District 6 George Chambers was elected una- Commissioners meet for the first meeting of nimiously by his fellow board members to be the new year on Tuesday, January 8, 2019, the 2019 Vice Chairman. In the event 6:00 p.m. in the superior courtroom of the his- Chairman Marty Smith is absent during this toric (old) courthouse, downtown Carrollton. gee COMMISSION page 22 Local law enforcement use of body cameras increasing, but not widespread yet SPECIAL ELECTION Tuesday. March 19, 2019 CANDIDATES WHO QUALIFIED TEMPLE CITY COUNCIL SEAT WARD 3 ONE CANDIDATE QUALIFIED Hiley Miller, 116 Carrollton Street, Temple, Ga., occupation: accounts manager CANDIDATES WHO QUALIFIED VILLA RICA CITY COUNCIL SEAT WARD 2 TWO CANDIDATES QUALIFIED Cheryl Bell, 225 Raleigh Way, Villa Rica, Ga., occupation: retired Matthew Momtahan, 263 Augusta Woods Drive, Villa Rica, Ga., occupation: attorney Second Annual MLK Holiday Celebration: January 19-21, 2019 The Second Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Celebration weekend will take place January 19-21, 2019. This year’s theme is “The Spirit of Community”. The weekend events begin Saturday January 19, 2019 at noon at the Carrollton Center for the Arts with the “Community Conversation: Re-Thinking Equality, Justice and Faith in a Post- Modem Culture”. This will be an interactive session. That same evening, the King Holiday Black Tie Celebration Gala will take place at See MLK CELEBRATION page 12 by Prissi Sullivan Reporter Law enforcement use of body cameras is increasing in Carroll County, but is not in use across the board - yet. In October, the Carroll County Commission gave the Villa Rica Police Department a check for $57,674 to use for the purchase of body cameras and attendant equipment for the offi cers. At the same meeting, Connor Poe and D. Pearson also gave a check, this one in the amount of $5,000 to the VRPD for the pur chase of body cams. Chief of Police Michael Mansour hopes to outfit each of his officers with this technology. Officers generally wear the body camera somewhere on their chest area; some wear it lower on their torso area depending on the officer’s height. VRPD has in-house server to which the video is initially uploaded. The server then archives the video to the WatchGuard Server System in Texas. Retention is based on state law. “Reference video retention lengths, based on House Bill 976, we must retain all videos at least 180 days (bodycam and dashcam) except: (1) Video which is part of a criminal investigation, shows a traffic crash, shows a detainment or arrest of a person, or shows a See BODY CAMERAS page 12 Villa Rica Police Department earns state certification Carrollton Chief of Police Joel Richards recently presented Villa Rica Chief of Police Michael Mansour and the Villa Rica Police Department with the Law Enforcement State Certification. “This certification has been in existence 22 years,” he explained at the Villa Rica City Council meeting of December 11, 2018. “There are 650 law enforcement agencies in the state and only 128 have this certification.” Agencies must be audited every three years to maintain this certification. Shown above are: Lt. 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