DDS
#1- From: Mitchell, Michael [mailto:mbmitchell@dds.ga.gov]

Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 11:07 AM
To: Cady, Jessica
Subject:

Hello Jessica,

Last week, Chairman Albers requested that I email him a short summary on proof of identity and lawful presence for obtaining or renewing a Georgia driver’s license. Could you please ensure that he gets this information:

All DDS customers are required to show documented proof of identity and lawful presence in the United States in order to obtain or, in certain cases, renew a Georgia driver’s license. For U.S. citizens, this is typically accomplished through a certified, state-issued birth certificate, which not only proves identity, but also U.S. citizenship. For non-U.S. citizens, proof of identity and proof of lawful presence can be accomplished through a valid, federally recognized immigration document, or combination of immigration documents.

Undocumented and illegal immigrants are not entitled to a Georgia driver’s license or ID card.

Also, because a Georgia driver’s license and ID card are considered to be “public benefits” under Georgia law, there are specific state guidelines, in addition to REAL ID, that DDS must adhere to in the issuance and renewal of licenses and ID’s. See O.C.G.A. Code Sec. 50-36-1.

Moreover, DDS verifies the validity of all immigration documents through the federal S.A.V.E. database. A Georgia driver’s license and ID card expiration date is tied to the expiration date of the immigration documents and the card itself is marked “Limited Term”. Any person whose immigration documents cannot be verified through S.A.V.E. or are under a deportation order will not receive a Georgia driver’s license or ID card.

Hope this helps.

Please let me know if Chairman Albers has any additional questions.

Mike

Mike Mitchell, Legislative Liaison
Department of Driver Services
678-413-8413

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Inundated w/requests to post “Dems Flip Flopping on Immigration” montage from radio: https://t.co/uhsjauSn4o #Hannity #StandWithSean

— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) September 8, 2017

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Cobb/Paulding Adult Education Center / Cobb County School District.
Cobb Center  | 240 Barber Road  |  Marietta, GA 30060  |  Phone: (678) 594-8011 Ext. 245   |  FAX: (678) 594-8015
Paulding Center   | 11 Courthouse Square   | Dallas, GA 30132   |  Phone: (770) 443-1660   |  FAX: (770) 443-6320

Cobb/Paulding Adult Education Center / Cobb County School District

To: Ms. Margaret Halstead

Please regard this email as my official open records request for copies of the below documents.

Please send me copies of all forms, affidavits and applications for registration and admission to the ESL Adult education classes advertised in this webpage sponsored by Cobb County Schools.

Please include all public benefits affidavits and copies of secure and verifiable ID as required in OCGA 50-36-1.

I understand there may be some redaction.

Please contact me with any questions. Please forward this request if I have sent it to the wrong department.

Thank you,

D.A. King

Marietta, Ga. 30066

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reply: 2:24 PM the next day.

Mr. King,

In order to process your open records request, we will need you to submit it directly to openrecords@cobbk12.org as indicated on our website and in accordance with OCGA § 50-18-70 et al.

Thanks,

Kelly Moore
Open Records Clerk
Policy, Planning & Student Support
Cobb County School District
Phone 770-514-3870
Fax 678-594-7778
openrecords@cobbk12.org

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September 13, 2017:

Mr. King,

I wanted to confirm receipt and inform you of a delay in responding to your request. Cobb County School District offices were closed on September 11 and 12 due to the weather, therefore you can expect to receive a response from us by the end of the business day Thursday, September 14th.

Thanks,

Kelly Moore
Open Records Clerk
Policy, Planning & Student Support
Cobb County School District
Phone 770-514-3870
Fax 678-594-7778
openrecords@cobbk12.org

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Sept. 14, 2017:

Very sorry. You are correct. My oversight. Please send me copies from dates July 1, 2012 to 15 Sept., 2017.

dak
On Sep 14, 2017, at 5:00 PM, OpenRecords <OpenRecords@cobbk12.org> wrote:

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Mr. King,

I am responding to your email submitted under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50- 18-70 et. seq. Your request is included below.

In reviewing the responsive documents to your request, I realized that you did not specify a timeframe for which you are seeking this documentation. Also, I wanted to make sure that I have interpreted your request correctly.

To confirm your request, I have attached a sample set of documentation in which we believe to be responsive to the request below. Please review and confirm that these are documents you are seeking. Additionally, please confirm for which school years you would like to receive the documents. Once you have confirmed this information, we will be able to provide an accurate time and cost estimate for the full production of documents.

Thanks,

Kelly Moore
Open Records Clerk
Policy, Planning & Student Support
Cobb County School District
Phone 770-514-3870
Fax 678-594-7778
openrecords@cobbk12.org
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This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of any information from this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by collect telephone call at (770-514-3870) or electronic mail (e-mail).

Initial responses to open records requests and any applicable exemptions are based upon general knowledge of documentation types and the relationship of the requestor to the record(s). Noted exemptions may or may not be applicable to the records upon production. Additional exemption may also be identified upon the actual review of the records if they were not available at the time of the response. The final list of redactions that apply to any record produced will be identified in the final response in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(b). To the extent that the open records request is related to any pending litigation matters involving the school district, please be advised the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(e), requires that you send a copy of your request to counsel for the school district: Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers at 49 Atlanta Street, Marietta, GA 30060.

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September 20, 2017

Mr. King,

I am responding to your email received September 15, 2017 under the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50- 18-70 et. seq. Your original request is also included below.

Of those records that can be produced, the records first must be redacted of confidential information. See, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(b). Redaction may include the following:
· Portions of the documents contain personally identifiably student information pursuant to the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act 20 U.S.C. § 1232g. (“FERPA”), as detailed in O.C.G.A. §50-18-72(a)(37).

There is a cost associated with the production of these records. The district charges for the production of records at the hourly salary of the lowest-paid full-time employee who has the necessary skill and training to search for, retrieve, copy, review, and redact the documents, less the first quarter hour. See O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(c)(1). The labor time for the production of these records is estimated to be 333 hours. Therefore, the total cost to produce these records is estimated to be $11,045.61. Additionally, it will take approximately four to six (4-6) weeks to produce these records.

Pursuant to O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(d), the district is providing you a cost estimate to produce these records and will defer retrieval of the records until such time as you pay in full the estimated cost of record production. Please let me know if you wish for the District to proceed. If no response is received within thirty (30) days, the District will consider the request withdrawn and the cost estimate null and void. You may respond by email to openrecords@cobbk12.org.

Thanks,

Kelly Moore
Open Records Clerk
Policy, Planning & Student Support
Cobb County School District
Phone 770-514-3870
Fax 678-594-7778
openrecords@cobbk12.org
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This e-mail may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized dissemination, distribution or copying of any information from this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you receive this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by collect telephone call at (770-514-3870) or electronic mail (e-mail).

Initial responses to open records requests and any applicable exemptions are based upon general knowledge of documentation types and the relationship of the requestor to the record(s). Noted exemptions may or may not be applicable to the records upon production. Additional exemption may also be identified upon the actual review of the records if they were not available at the time of the response. The final list of redactions that apply to any record produced will be identified in the final response in accordance with O.C.G.A. § 50-18-72(b). To the extent that the open records request is related to any pending litigation matters involving the school district, please be advised the Georgia Open Records Act, O.C.G.A. § 50-18-71(e), requires that you send a copy of your request to counsel for the school district: Gregory, Doyle, Calhoun & Rogers at 49 Atlanta Street, Marietta, GA 30060.

Maybe we can look forward to an amnesty for ‘the children‘ every ten years or so?

From the AJC today:

“Children who received status under President Obama’s deferred action executive order should not be punished for their parents’ choices. Congress should protect these young people while also working toward stronger measures to secure our borders and enforce our immigration laws going forward.”

Missing from that statement, you may notice, is any mention of the president. When we caught up with Isakson later on Tuesday afternoon, he offered no criticism of the president.

“DACA was in place because of an executive order (note from D.A.King – no, it wasn’t. It was created with a memo). The new executive has decided to rescind the application of DACA for the future and left it to Congress,” he said.

–> As for Congress, Isakson said, “It’s time we start doing something.” That includes grandfathering the current DACA kids into the system and sorting out a system for future children in similar situations, he said.

U.S. Rep Karen Handel = photo, Slate.com

We are guessing she also loves apple pie. And that this comforts many of her voters.

From the AJC Political Insider blog September 1, 2017.

“U.S. Rep. Karen Handel, R-Roswell , told constituents listening on a “telephone town hall” Wednesday night that she opposes birthright citizenship that courts have long held is conferred by the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. “I think on immigration we have to move forward in a stepwise way. I do not support birthright citizenship, No. 1. No. 2, I’m not supportive of amnesty,” Handel said during a telephone town hall on Wednesday night.

Kwanza Hall Photo: ww1pictures.zimbio.com

The below sanctuary Resolution was passed by the Atlanta City Council on September 5, 2017

A SANCTUARY CITY RESOLUTION BY ATLANTA COUNCILMEMBER KWANZA HALL

A RESOLUTION OF THE ATLANTA CITY COUNCIL TO STRENGTHEN THE CITY’S COMMITMENT TO BEING A WELCOMING CITY, TO SUPPORT RECIPIENTS OF DEFERRED ACTION FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS (DACA), TO PROTECT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES AND TO UPHOLD THE 4TH AND 14TH AMENDMENTS OF THE CONSTITUTION.

WHEREAS, In June of 2012 President Obama ordered the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA)to protect and create opportunities for immigrants who came to the country as children; and

WHEREAS, the end of DACA will result in over 800,000 people nationally and 28,000 in Georgia, many of whom are immigrant youth, becoming vulnerable to aggressive raids, deadly detention centers and life-altering deportations that already affect immigrants not benefiting from the program.

WHEREAS, DACA recipients, who were brought to the US as minor children, have grown up in Georgia, are working and attending school, and are fulfilling critical roles in our economy and communities; and

WHEREAS, while DACA can never take the place of comprehensive immigration reform, it provides an important stop-gap measure for supporting a rising generation of diverse young people who love this country and are faithfully working to improve it; and

WHEREAS, on October 22nd, 2013 the City of Atlanta became a Welcoming City, a national grassroots effort that works to promote mutual respect and cooperation between foreign-born and native-born Americans, and has worked since then to identify opportunities to engage Atlanta’s global immigrant communities and further immigrants’ role in building our local economy; and

WHEREAS, the City of Atlanta is not a 287g contracted entity and is not responsible for federal immigration affairs within the city limits; and

WHEREAS, the United States Constitution and the 4th Amendment protects “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized:” and

WHEREAS, the United States Constitution and the 14th Amendment ensures that no state shall “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws;” and

WHEREAS, the City of Atlanta is a member of the national Cities for Action coalition which holds the mission to create stronger and safer cities by driving the national debate, embracing new immigrants, and engaging with stakeholders to win on immigration policies.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ATLANTA, GA that the rescinding of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program is opposed and Atlanta’s commitment to the protection of all people’s civil and human rights is affirmed;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Atlanta Police Department shall not detain or extend the detention of any individual at the request of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) unless ICE first presents the Atlanta Police Department with a judicially issued warrant authorizing such detention.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, in particular, Atlanta Police Department officials shall not arrest, detain, extend the detention of, transfer custody of, or transport anyone solely on the basis of an immigration detainer or an administrative immigration warrant, including an administrative immigration warrant in the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that at no time may the Atlanta Police Department detain a subject for additional time beyond when the criminal matter allows release solely to notify ICE of the subject’s release or to facilitate transfer to ICE.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Atlanta Police Department shall not treat a detainer or request for notification as an indication that an individual is unlawfully present.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that prior to any investigative interview of an individual in Atlanta Police Department’s custody, ICE must notify the subject inmate’s attorney, provide a reasonable opportunity for counsel to be present during the interview, and certify to the Atlanta Police Department that this notice and opportunity has occurred.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that any person who alleges a violation of this policy may file a written complaint for investigation with the Atlanta Police Department and with the internal complaints division of the Atlanta Police Department.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Municipal Clerk shall transmit a copy of this resolution to the members of the Georgia Congressional delegation.

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that this resolution is effective immediately upon approval.