Former first lady Rosalynn Carter was buried in Plains on Wednesday after a memorial and tribute in Atlanta on Monday and Tuesday. Plus, family members and advocates are calling for accountability more than a week after the body camera footage was released of the fatal encounter between a now former Atlanta police officer and a 62-year-old church deacon. And an activist group is offering help for some of the 1.6 million Georgians with student loans and are urging the federal government follows suit.

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Fulton County's District Attorney released body camera footage from a former Atlanta police officer who repeatedly tased a church deacon, who died over a dispute for a traffic ticket. Plus, Georgia’s state Supreme Court is refusing to approve rules for a new commission to discipline and remove state prosecutors. And we remember former first lady Rosalynn Carter, who died Sunday at 96.

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Metro Atlanta saw very low turnout for municipal elections. Plus, as Ohio voters decided to protect abortion access, some Georgia lawmakers question if voters here should have that opportunity. And some coaches and students at HBCUs saw recruiting internationally for some sports does not meet the mission of the schools.

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DFCS Commissioner Candice Broce allegedly asked judges to consider placing developmental disabled foster kids in a juvenile detention center "for a few days" in order to deal with a lack of caregivers. Broce said in a statement that the judges testimony to the Senate committee lacked context and accuracy. And this week marked one year since since Atlanta Medical Center in the city's Old Fourth Ward closed its doors for good as health advocates and city officials continue to push for a new hospital there.

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Georgia's Supreme Court ruled this week the state's ban on abortion at around six weeks of pregnancy will remain in place.  Meantime a federal judge ruled Georgia lawmakers must redraw the state’s political maps for Congress and the state legislature before the 2024 election. Plus, we see how early childhood care centers are coping with a huge understaffing problem generated from the pandemic. And a fourth defendant in Fulton County's massive RICO case against former President Donald Trump (and others) has pleaded guilty.

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Lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Cheseboro pleaded guilty this week in Fulton County's election meddling case that includes former President Donald Trump as a defendant. We also hear from Georgia U.S. Senators Warnock and Ossoff who are among lawmakers weighing in on the Israel-Hamas war. Fulton County Commissioners voted this week to take back more than $2 million previously allotted to the sheriff's office for new technology meant to improve conditions at the county jail, where 10 people have died so far this year.

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WABE obtained the completed autopsies for those who died at Fulton County Jail and found half suffered from issues like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The 2023 Atlanta Pride Festival will feature more than 80 sponsors and businesses from all across the metro. We look at the business of visibility.  And Atlanta police are increasing security around places of worship as the Israel-Gaza war continues and protests and demonstrations do as well. 

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A Georgia prosecutor will not charge the state troopers who shot and killed an activist in January at the site of the planned Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. And a state Senate committee is launching an investigation into conditions at the troubled Fulton County Jail, just three months after the U.S. Department of Justice launched its own inquiry. Plus, a Georgia hospital program is testing a new approach to maternal mental health during and after pregnancy as the state continues to struggle with a high rate of maternal mortality.

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Former President Donald Trump has notified a Fulton County judge that he will not try to have his Georgia criminal case removed to federal court. The 61 activists charged with conspiracy over efforts to stop the construction of Atlanta's planned public safety training center are set for arraignment in November. And  former President Jimmy Carter turns 99 years old on Sunday.

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Jeffrey Clark, Shawn Still, Cathy Latham, and David Shaffer are trying to have his Georgia criminal case tried in federal court. Clark is a former DOJ official. The other three were among the 16 Georgia Republicans who met at the State Capitol in December 2020 to cast electoral votes for Donald Trump. Plus, a group of public defenders are advising county officials against a proposal to move inmates out of the overcrowded Fulton County Jail to facilities hundreds of miles away. And tens of thousands of Georgians continue to lose health coverage every month as the state winds down federal pandemic-emergency Medicaid rules.  

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