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Decatur GA Commission backs removal of monument
Bill Banks For the AJC
2:16 p.m Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017
... The City Commission recently voted unanimously to approve a resolution to remove a roughly 30-foot-tall obelisk from its city square. The catch .. is that the monument, located behind the former DeKalb County Courthouse, is owned by the county.
... also .. state law .. appears to prohibit such monuments from being "relocated, removed, concealed, obscured, or altered in any fashion" ...
http://www.ajc.com/news/state--regional-govt--politics/decatur-commission-backs-removal-rebel-monument-city-square/acPpKszph7uRrhpbsJMA2J/
