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Exhibitions Director Dan Rooney and curator Sarah Dylla stand in the future home of the Atlanta History Center’s remade 1996 Summer Olympics exhibit. Rooney curated the original exhibit and Dylla is working on the remake.

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Crime concerns focus on changing bail system BY JOHN RUCH AND EVELYN ANDREWS Local crime concerns have reached a boil – dominating a mayoral town hall and resulting in a list of recommendations from the Buckhead Council of Neighborhoods – and most of the heat is gathering around possible changes to the way Fulton County

judges make bail decisions. But judges and the district attorney’s office are also pushing back on what they say are some incorrect claims and misunderstandings, and the BCN altered one of its bail-related proposals after hearing from City Council members. Chief Judge Robert C. I. McBurney of Fulton County Superior Court says he sees posSee LOCAL on page 22

Fresh from debuting a major exhibit reinterpreting the Cyclorama painting of a Civil War battle, the Atlanta History Center is hard at work on a similar “reinvention” of the display about another city cultural touchstone: the 1996 Summer Olympics. The original Olympics exhibit, which opened 10 years after the Games, was largely celebratory and packed with artifacts and memorabilia. The new version – set to open in July 2020 to coincide with the next Summer Olympics in Tokyo – will take a wider view. In part, curators say, that means highlighting lasting legacies like Centennial Olympic Park and the city’s global reputation. It also means giving space to previously underplayed protests about lack of transparency and equity, and a time when See RETHINKING on page 14

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