Coverage of the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, its costs, operations and the debate around it.
Atlanta’s $117 million police and fire training campus opened in 2025. What it is, where it is, what it cost, who trains there and why opponents named it Cop City.
Atlanta’s $117 million training center is in its second year. The state’s racketeering case is on appeal, the Tortuguita lawsuit was dismissed and the referendum effort lost in court.
A year after it opened, the facility once known mainly for protests is training hundreds of police and fire recruits. What happens there day to day, what officials say it has achieved, and why critics remain unconvinced.
The movement against Atlanta’s public safety training center began with a 2021 land lease and grew into one of the longest-running protest campaigns in the country. A timeline of how it started.
Atlanta’s public safety training center opened in 2025 after years of protests. What its opening changes for the city, and why opponents say the fight is not finished.
In January 2023, environmental activist Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, known as Tortuguita, was shot and killed by Georgia state troopers during a raid on the forest encampment. What happened and what followed.