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This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 628 law enforcement agencies employing 26,551 sworn police officers, about 274 for each 100,000 residents.
Gwinnett County police car in 2003. The Gwinnett County Police Department (GCPD) is the main law enforcement agency in Gwinnett County, Georgia. The department has about a thousand employees with 936 sworn law enforcement officers as of March 2024. [2] The current incumbent Chief of Police is James D. McClure. [4]
Peachtree Corners is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is the largest city in Gwinnett County with a population of 42,243 as of the 2020 U.S. census. [4] Peachtree Corners is the only Atlanta northern suburb developed as a planned community. [5]
Code enforcement, sometimes encompassing law enforcement, is the act of enforcing a set of rules, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and ensuring observance of a system of norms or customs. [1] An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to behave in a ...
The Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center was built in 1988 [1] at a cost of $72 million [2] to replace the original Gwinnett County Courthouse, which had been built in 1872 shortly after the American Civil War. [3] The facility was designed by architecture firms Richardson, Inc. from Dallas, Texas, and Architects Plus from Norcross ...
In 1813, Fort Daniel was created during the War of 1812 in territory that would become Gwinnett County. [9] The county was created in 1818 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly, Gwinnett County was formed from parts of Jackson County (formerly part of Franklin County) and from lands gained through the cession of Creek Indian lands.
This is the list of FIPS codes for Georgia — FIPS codes for each county in the state. ... 13135 - Gwinnett County; 13137 - Habersham County; 13139 - Hall County;
Gwinnett County School District, 112 F.3d 1464 (11th Cir. 1997), [1] refers to an Eleventh Circuit Court case in which the plaintiff, Brian Bown, a school teacher, challenged as an unconstitutional Establishment Clause violation Georgia's law requiring a "Moment of Quiet Reflection". The Court ruled that the Moment of Quiet Reflection was not ...