Jennifer Peebles
Newsroom data specialist
Jennifer Peebles is a newsroom data specialist at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, helping reporters find and tell stories with government data (and sometimes documents, too). Tips, data and documents are always welcome. How to send me tips and information you’d like the AJC to see: Email: jennifer.peebles (at) ajc.com Twitter: @jpeebles Send me your electronic files (data and documents) securely and encrypted via Flowcrypt at this webpage. All you have to do is drag-and-drop your file into the little window. PGP for secure my email: Public key available at this link | Fingerprint: 047 384 9F2 6C9 9C8 8F6 0CD F86 1EB 008 CEE D5B A185 Snail mail: Mail me your documents or materials on a flash drive. My address is 223 Perimeter Center Parkway NE, Atlanta GA 30346. Signal secure texts and calls: 281-656-1681 Proton Mail secure email: jpeebles (at) protonmail.com Keybase.io secure messaging: jpeebles Jennifer is the former government editor of The (Nashville) Tennessean newspaper and has more than 20 years’ experience as a reporter and editor in four states. She is the 2009 winner of the John Aubuchon Freedom of Information Award from the group Capitolbeat and the 2009 Open Doors Award from the Fort Worth Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. She is a native Georgian and a graduate of Vanderbilt University.
Latest from Jennifer Peebles
During the campaign for Governor, Democrat Stacey Abrams made a big effort to register new voters and reach out to minorities. Republican Brian Kemp sought to build off Donald Trump’s 5-point win 2016 win and continue Republican dominance in statewide races. The electorate shifted in ways that helped both campaigns and raises the possibility...
She thought the Governor’s Task Force commander had invited her to a Savannah conference for her legal expertise. Then state patrol Capt. Eddie Williams had drunkenly invited her to his bedroom during a late-night bus ride, the woman alleged in a sexual harassment complaint, and he did nothing as his rowdy subordinates tried to pull...
Lewd insults. Groping. Never-ending sexual propositions. That’s what women working in Georgia’s prison system say they endure every day. Dealing with incarcerated criminals, the women knew going into the job that they could face men trying to intimidate them, or worse. But dozens of women’s accounts in state records aren&rsquo...
A court order issued Thursday despite objections by Secretary of State Brian Kemp and other elections leaders could affect several hundred Georgia absentee ballots — once the legal wrangling plays out. U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May’s restraining order stops officials across the state from rejecting absentee ballots...
Georgia’s registered voters became more racially diverse this year, continuing a long-term demographic trend among the electorate. White voters are still the majority in Georgia, but their collective influence is slowly waning each election year, according to voter registration data from the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office...
The woman said she wasn’t even looking to file a formal complaint. But griping to her supervisor about how the leader of an elite environmental cleanup team had passed her over for a promotion, the words slipped out of her mouth. “You know, I should have reported him for sexual harassment,” the woman said, “but I just...
Emboldened by #MeToo, a half dozen state emergency management employees came forward about a supervisor putting his hands on women who didn’t want to be touched, making locker-room jokes they didn’t want to hear. His punishment: A talking-to. No written reprimand. No disciplinary action. “It sent the message that that kind...
When a beloved deputy commissioner in Atlanta’s Public Works Department died in 2013, Mayor Kasim Reed wanted to help the family by paying for the funeral and related expenses. He then handed the bills to taxpayers. Legal defense for Atlanta judge’s ethics case climbs to $56K Atlanta’s corruption probe-related legal bills...
In Georgia, state government departments and agencies are told they can handle sexual harassment claims in a way that fits their culture. But this freedom can result in outcomes that leave victims disillusioned. Too often that was the case at the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, an AJC examination found. In...
Her boss at the agricultural lab touched her lower back so much, she dreaded going to work. In the emergency management office, women were subjected to a supervisor’s repeated crude comments about sex, as well as shoulder rubs and his fingers in their hair. At the home mortgage office, a man rubbed the lower back and upper buttocks...
One-hundred fifty-four years ago this weekend, men in uniforms of blue and gray hurled themselves at one another violently at Piedmont Atlanta Hospital. Cannon fire drowned out the rumblings of the trains at the Inman Park-Reynoldstown MARTA station. And at Westview Cemetery, the sounds of rifle volleys shattered the respectful silence. Well...