Jeremy T. Berry: His Actions Have Been Described by Others:
In 2018, while Jeremy T. Berry was City Attorney for Atlanta, the AJC reported on how the City’s Law Department supplied legal billing records the newspaper had requested under the Open Records Act. The AJC reported that what it received were compilations of time entries presented as invoices, for $1.4 million in legal work. The views in the table belong to the people quoted, not to ADA Matters.
Where it ended. No charge against Berry appears in the reporting checked here. In the Atlanta open records case the Attorney General cited one person, a different former City employee (Attorney General release, February 11, 2019). A lawyer retained by Atlanta, Robert Highsmith of Holland & Knight, said Berry had “done absolutely nothing wrong” in complying with records requests (AJC, April 25, 2018), and Berry said: “The City of Atlanta has complied with both the letter and the spirit of the Open Records Act.” (his statement, March 9, 2018)
| Who said it, about what | Their words | Read the article |
|---|---|---|
| Clark Cunningham, Georgia State University law and ethics professor, on the documents Atlanta supplied as invoices | “I would say these appear to be felonies” | AJC, Stephen Deere and Dan Klepal, March 9, 2018 |
| Clark Cunningham, same article, on the purpose of those documents | “The apparent intent was not to be ‘convenient’ to the AJC but to deceive the AJC and ultimately the public.” | AJC, Stephen Deere and Dan Klepal, March 9, 2018 |
| Kathryn Webb Bradley, Duke Law legal ethics director, on creating invoices and handing them over without saying they were reconstructed | “flat-out unethical” | AJC, Stephen Deere and Dan Klepal, March 9, 2018 |
| Felicia Moore, then Atlanta City Council President, on the Law Department | “This calls into question the honesty, openness and legality of our own Law Department” | AJC, Stephen Deere and Dan Klepal, March 9, 2018 |
| The AJC’s reporting on the GBI probe | “GBI agents interviewed two AJC reporters about their interactions with Atlanta City Attorney Jeremy Berry” | AJC, J. Scott Trubey, March 16, 2018 |
| The AJC’s reporting, after he left office | “Former City Attorney Jeremy Berry has acknowledged that he created documents that he represented as legal invoices” | AJC, Stephen Deere, October 5, 2018 |
Brookhaven residents have described it too. A May 29, 2026 post in the Brookhaven Strong Facebook group, shown there as by “Anonymous participant,” called him “a central figure in a high-profile Georgia Open Records Act (GORA) investigation.” The post recounts the 2018 GBI probe, the invoice documents, the Attorney General’s request for a GBI investigation and his 2018 resignation, citing the AJC. Read the post in the Brookhaven Strong Facebook group (May 29, 2026).
In 2018 the AJC questioned how Atlanta responded to records requests. In 2026 I questioned how Brookhaven responded to mine. The events and outcomes are separate. What he did in my emails and letters in 2026, with dates, is below.
Read the emails and letters: City of Brookhaven and BPD · Christian Sigman, City Manager · Sandra Bryant, City Clerk · All Brookhaven people
Back to Jeremy T. Berry · The City of Brookhaven hub
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