ATLANTA — The director of the city's police academy is under internal investigation connected to domestic violence allegations from a Barrow County dispute and was temporarily relieved of duty and stripped of his gun and badge. The estranged wife of Atlanta Police Training Academy Director Ailen Mitchell received a protection order against him earlier this […]
Joel Elliott
Joel Elliott is an investigative journalist covering human rights and abuses of power. Reporting for his first newspaper, Georgia’s Toccoa Record, earned him the national Payne Award for Ethics in Journalism and Georgia First Amendment Foundation’s Weltner Hero Award. He later researched in the Middle East and freelanced across South Asia for The New York Times and GlobalPost. Along the way, he’s reported on transgender rights in India; covered bombings in Pakistan and Boston; been teargassed in Bangkok and Cairo; camped with Tibetan pilgrims in the Himalayas; and drunk countless cups of sugary tea around Bedouin campfires in the Sinai. Now sipping unsweetened tea in Atlanta, he’s back to holding Georgia’s powerful accountable.
