Press Releases

The DeKalb Board of Registration and Elections will hold a special called meeting on Wednesday, July 7, 2021, at 9:30 a.m. This meeting will be conducted via teleconference (Zoom). Simultaneous public access to the meeting will be available via livestream on DCTV’s UStream channel https://video.ibm.com/channel/dctv-channel-23.

The DeKalb Human Services Department, in partnership with the DeKalb Community Development Department, is currently providing a limited number of summer vouchers and scholarships for qualified youth to attend approved, in-person summer camp programs in DeKalb County.

County will hold a webinar for landlords to explain the application process for its Tenant-Landlord Assistance Coalition program today, Thursday, July 1, at 7 p.m. DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond will participate in the webinar, along with DeKalb County Clerk of State and Magistrate Courts Javoyne Hicks and representatives from Tenant-Landlord Assistance Coalition program.

DeKalb County will hold a webinar for landlords to explain the application process for its Tenant-Landlord Assistance Coalition program. The webinar will be held Thursday, July 1, at 7 p.m.

DeKalb County CEO Michael Thurmond has extended the five-year-old water service disconnection moratorium for residential water accounts to Sept. 1, 2021. The moratorium was set to expire on July 1. “While the county has addressed the issues that led to the moratorium in 2016, the extension gives customers more time to pay their outstanding bills in full or make payment arrangements,” CEO Thurmond said.