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(Duluth, Ga., Jan 8, 2025) – The Gwinnett County Police Department arrested a suspect minutes after committing a $5,000 theft involving the sale of a vehicle.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., April 30, 2024) – The Gwinnett County Police Department is holding a hiring event this weekend for sworn police officers and civilian communications officers (911 Center) personnel.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 29, 2025) – The Gwinnett County Police Department has been accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA) since 1993. In 2021, CALEA awarded the department with the Communications Accreditation and Training Academy Accreditation awards. By earning these two additional accreditations, the Gwinnett County Police Department achieved the prestigious Tri-Arc Award from CALEA, becoming the first law enforcement agency in Georgia to receive this recognition. The Tri-Arc Award is given to agencies that have concurrent CALEA accreditation for their law enforcement, public safety communications, and public safety training agencies.

(Lawrenceville, Georgia., Apr 4, 2023) - Gwinnett County Fire & Emergency Services is currently accepting applications for the next Citizen’s Fire Academy. The academy is being offered with both English and Spanish-speaking instructors. Class will begin on April 19^th and meet every Wednesday night at 6:00 p.m. for nine weeks. The average class time lasts three hours.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 5, 2009) - Gwinnett Police Chief Charles Walters announced today that his agency will get more than $500,000 in grants, share in $1 million in stimulus funds with other public safety and court agencies, and apply for another $260,000 grant to help support its programs and operations.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 5, 2009) - Five departments of Gwinnett County government have won six achievement awards from the National Association of Counties and their accomplishments were honored at the Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 6, 2009) - Gwinnett County's 2009 millage rate and tax billing have been tangled in the ongoing Service Delivery Strategy (SDS) dispute with Gwinnett cities and as a result, Gwinnett County filed a petition for a Temporary Collection Order (TCO) last month. The TCO hearing will be held on Aug. 11 at 1:30 p.m. in Gwinnett Superior Court. The TCO is a remedy of law for local governments that allows the billing of property taxes to occur without an approved tax digest from the State Revenue Commissioner. The State Revenue Commissioner has not certified Gwinnett's tax digest, due primarily to the fact that the government has not set a formal millage rate. The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners denied a proposed millage rate in June after holding three public hearings on a proposed tax increase.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 7, 2009) - Gwinnett County Commissioner Mike Beaudreau has scheduled his monthly meeting for District 3 residents on Saturday, Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. until noon at the Holly Pavilion in Tribble Mill Park, 2125 Tribble Mill Parkway, Lawrenceville.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 13, 2009) - Gwinnett County Administrator Jock Connell has announced he will retire at the end of the year. First hired in 1986 to oversee the County's risk management section, Connell briefly left the county to work in the private sector. Recruited back to Gwinnett County to become Assistant Finance Director in 1994, Connell was promoted in 1995 as Finance Director. In 2000, he was appointed as the county's first Deputy County Administrator. In 2005, the Board of Commissioners named him County Administrator.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 19, 2009) - Just over $4.5 million in federal stimulus and state funds is headed to Gwinnett after commissioners voted to accept five different grants on Tuesday.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 19, 2009) - More than 26,000 Gwinnett-based businesses soon will get a letter from the County's license and revenue office asking for compliance with a new state immigration law. The County is required to check the immigration status of all applicants for a business/occupation tax certificate, commonly called a business license.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 20, 2009) - Gwinnett County Chairman Charles Bannister and the Board of Commissioners together with the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce and other civic and business leaders are launching a community initiative called "Engage Gwinnett - Committee on the Future of Gwinnett County." Committee members will spend approximately six months looking at Gwinnett County's needs for current and future government services and proposing funding strategies to pay for them over the next five years.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 25, 2009) - Gwinnett's Department of Water Resources has received $18.5 million in federal stimulus funds to support three major wastewater projects according to Acting Director Lynn Smarr.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 25, 2009) - The first step in Gwinnett County's plan to eliminate more than 250 jobs in a major cost-saving effort resulted in 202 employees opting for retirement under an incentive offer. The vast majority, who are already eligible for retirement, will retire on or before Sept. 18. The remaining 33 are going on leave without pay until their retirement date.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Aug. 26, 2009) - Starting Aug. 29, the Gwinnett Justice and Administration Center (GJAC) will be closed on weekends and holidays and at 10 p.m. most weekday evenings to reduce operating costs. It will be kept open as needed for public hearings, court activities or other scheduled events.

(Lawrenceville, Ga. August 28, 2009) Gwinnett County Tax Commissioner Katherine Meyer announced that property tax bills for 2009 have been mailed. Payment installment dates are October 15 and November 15.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 1, 2009) - The Gwinnett Board of Commissioners today approved an employment contract with Glenn P. Stephens as County Administrator to succeed Jock Connell, who is retiring at the end of this year. Stephens' appointment is effective immediately.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 1, 2009) - Gwinnett commissioners heard Tuesday that they have received almost $120 million so far from the $787 billion federal economic stimulus law, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) that became law last February.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 1, 2009) - Gwinnett's separately elected officials and Constitutional officers have agreed to $1.9 million in budget cuts to help commissioners balance the books for 2009. The Board accepted their recommendations on Tuesday and cautioned that another $11 million in cuts will be needed for next year. These cuts are consistent with reductions in budgets throughout the County.

(Lawrenceville, Ga., Sept. 1, 2009) – All Gwinnett County government offices, with the exception of those operations required for the comfort and safety of the citizens of the County, will be closed Sept. 7 for the Labor Day holiday. All offices will resume regular working hours on Sept. 8.