County HR reported hiring progress for the sheriff's office, Walls Group recruiting activity and ankle-monitor deployments; staff outlined plans for a diversion hub, bond-review calendars and pilot automation for court text reminders.

County staff reported progress on a five-point plan to reduce jail population—more ankle monitors in use, a near-term launch of automated court reminders, and bond-review calendars that reduced several bonds—but commissioners pressed for data tying those steps to population changes and asked about outsourcing beds.

Fulton County commissioners adopted their 2026 legislative priorities item-by-item, approving support for an additional superior court judgeship, backing Senate Bill 10 to allow judicial officers, and ratifying a broad set of state-level priorities including online legal notices, behavioral health expansion, NextGen 911 and transit board parity.