The ACRB meets every second Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Atlanta City Hall, 55 Trinity Avenue, S.W., Second Floor, in the Larry M. Dingle Committee Room One.
Below are the scheduled upcoming meetings:
- November 14, 2024 @ 6:30 pm, 55 Trinity Avenue S.W., Second Floor, Larry Dingle Committee Room One, Atlanta, GA 30303
- December 12, 2024 @ 6:30 pm, 55 Trinity Avenue S.W., Second Floor, Larry Dingle Committee Room One, Atlanta, GA 30303
Announcements
The Atlanta Citizen Review Board (ACRB) is committed to promoting positive interaction between citizens and police officers. The purpose of the ACRB Art, Essay, Poetry and Rap Contest is to encourage discussion and understanding between students/citizens and law enforcement through creative expression. It is an opportunity to freely express the relationship with artwork, written, and spoken word based on personal opinions, experiences, talents, skills, and abilities.
Contest Theme
“My Dream for a Just World: One City, One Team…Citizens & Police, Working Together…”
Contest Eligibility
All elementary school, middle school, high school, and college students living within the Atlanta city limits are eligible to enter the primary contest. Everyone living within Atlanta city limits and surrounding cities, and counties are eligible to enter the Special Open Entry contest (see Special Open Entry (SOE) list of eligible areas). City of Atlanta residents can participate in the primary contest or the SOE but cannot participate in both.
ACRB HIGHLIGHTS
- Summer 2024 Newsletter
- City of Atlanta Public Defender's Office Know Your Rights Presentation at ACRB Board Meeting
- Click here for tips on how to file a compliant
- How to help the investigation into your police misconduct compliant
- Anatomy of a Police Interaction-Citizen Kenny and Officer Branch Blog Post Series- Part 1-3
COMMUNITY OUTREACH events
To support the 2025 Art, Essay, and Verbal Expression Contest, the ACRB will be holding workshops during the duration of the contest where entrants can come in and get coached on the area of their choice. Getting coached will prepare people to become more confident with submitting their entry for the contest.
- Saturday, November 9, 2024 (Art, Essay, and Verbal Expression Workshops) @ Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation and Aquatic Center, 110 Hilliard Street, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30312 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Visit the Atlanta Citizen Review Board (ACRB) Outreach team every first Friday at Greenbriar Mall from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. located at 2841 Greenbriar Pkwy S.W., Atlanta, GA 30331. Below is our 2024 Greenbriar appearance schedule:
- Friday, November 1, 2024
- Friday, December 6, 2024
Below is our 2024 New Black Wall Street appearance schedule:
- Friday, November 8, 2024
- Friday, December 13, 2024
OVERVIEW
The Atlanta Citizen Review Board (ACRB) was established by Ordinance (City Sec 2 2201 Establishment of the Atlanta Citizen Review Board) as an independent agency in 2007 and amended with subpoena power in May of 2010 (ACRB-Ordinance-Amendment 10-0-0773). The purpose of the legislation is to ensure that city departments directly responsible for public safety, particularly the Police Department and the Department of Corrections have the proper support of the government and its various agencies. It is designed to provide citizen oversight of misconduct accusations against sworn members of the police and corrections departments in the City of Atlanta.
The ACRB provides a credible, independent forum where complaints and accusations can be assessed. It is also designed to help prevent future incidents of police or corrections misconduct and abuses of civil rights and to reduce the amount of money needed to satisfy judgments and settlements based on upon allegations of police or corrections misconduct. The ACRB promotes public confidence in law enforcement and lessens the possibility that future incidents of urban unrest will occur.
Types of Complaints
ACRB allegations are complaints lodged by members of the public regarding alleged abuse of authority, abusive language, appropriate action required, conduct, discrimination, discriminatory reference, failing to provide identification, false arrest, false imprisonment, harassment, retaliation, use of excessive force, serious bodily injury, death and violation of department standard operating procedures which is alleged to be the result of the actions of a sworn employee of the police department or department of corrections.
ACRb quarterly citizen update
The data below is to provide transparency of the ACRB data associated with citizen complaints against Atlanta police and corrections officers. This table is designed to assist the public with understanding the work of the agency. The table is useful for tracking the APD’s responses to sustained ACRB allegations. We encourage citizens to contact the agency with questions regarding the data.
| Metrics | 1st QuarterJan-Mar 2023 | 1st QuarterJan-Mar 2024 |
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3rd Quarter July-Sept. 2023 |
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| Metrics | 1st QuarterJan-Mar 2023 | 1st QuarterJan-Mar 2024 |
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3rd Quarter July-Sept. 2023 |
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| Metrics | 1st QuarterJan-Mar 2023 | 1st QuarterJan-Mar 2024 |
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i Complaints received are the number of complaints received during the quarter. Complaints may include a single allegation or multiple allegations.
ii Location of complaints received represents the geographical areas from where police interaction occurred in the city. This data only includes where an address was obtained. Periodically, areas may receive the same number of complaints. It should be noted that some areas may experience more complaints due to increases in the number of public events in the area.
iii Complaint determinations represents the number of completed complaint investigations that came before the Board during the quarter.
iv This represents the percentage of allegations that the Board sustained during the quarter.
v This represents the percentage of sustained allegations that the APD agreed with the Board’s sustained finding. The percentage is based on when the ACRB received the letter of notification from the APD. This percentage does not correlate with the Board’s Sustained Allegations percentage.
vi All letters received indicated the investigations are pending.