Press Releases

DeKalb County Public Library Board of Trustees will hold a finance committee meeting on Mon., June 23, 2025, at 4 p.m., followed by a regular meeting at 4:30 p.m. The meetings will be held at Darro C. Willey–Administrative Center, 3560 Kensington Rd., Decatur, GA 30032. The meetings will also be livestreamed. To receive a link to the livestream, contact weissingera@dekalblibrary.org no later than Monday, June 23 at noon.

DeKalb County has fully committed a $5 million federal grant to assisting low- to moderate-income households by providing no-cost plumbing repairs, known as the DeKalb CARES Plumbing Repair Program. Funded by the U.S. Department of Treasury under the American Rescue Plan Act, this  initiative has spent $1.5 million to future applicants in need of plumbing repairs and committed an additional $3.3 million to future applicants in need of plumbing repairs.

In response to protest activity near Embry Village, DeKalb County leadership today reaffirmed the County’s commitment to protecting the constitutional rights of individuals to peacefully assemble and express their views, while emphasizing the importance of public safety and lawful behavior. Earlier today, protestors entered Chamblee Tucker Road and attempted to march towards the interstate ramp, creating a dangerous situation for both demonstrators and motorists.

At around 2:48 p.m., June 13, DeKalb County Police responded to a call of a double shooting at the Forest of Columbia Apartments in the 2500 block of Columbia Drive. When officers arrived, they found 29-year-old woman Tomika Pullins and 7-year-old girl Dior Scott shot and not breathing inside one apartment. Despite the heroic efforts of first responders, both victims sadly died at the scene.

The DeKalb County Governing Authority approved a tentative 2025 millage rate of 12.427 mills and will hold three public hearings to allow the public an opportunity to express their opinions on the proposed millage rate. When the current total digest of taxable property is prepared, Official Code of Georgia Annotated § 48-5-32.1 requires a rollback millage rate must be computed that will produce the same total revenue on the current year’s digest that last year’s millage rate would have produced had no reassessments occurred.