812 documents
Marietta City Council minutes
Regular and work-session minutes, voting records, and attendance logs from every council meeting since January 2010. Filed within 48 hours of each meeting's adjournment.
Last updated · March 11, 2025
Vol. XVI · No. 47
Thursday, March 13, 2025
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Marietta Register
Public Records Archive · Est. 2009Marietta and Cobb County's open library of council minutes, commission agendas, school board packets, police logs, zoning files, RFPs and contracts — every document citable, every page dated, every source on the record.
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Every record below was obtained under the Georgia Open Records Act and filed by the Register's newsroom. Search across full text, narrow by department, or jump straight to a category. All results are free to read; no login required.
Six primary categories
What's in the archive
The Register's records desk files each document under one of six primary lanes, mirroring the way Marietta and Cobb County actually publish their business. Click a category to browse the full collection.
637 documents
Cobb County Commission agendas
Full agenda packets, supplemental materials, and commissioner recusal filings for every regular and special-called BOC meeting. Cross-referenced with our City Hall coverage.
Last updated · March 12, 2025
504 documents
Marietta City Schools board packets
Board of Education agendas, financial reports, capital project files, and policy drafts covering all MCS elementary, middle, and high schools. Includes superintendent search materials.
Last updated · March 10, 2025
429 documents
Police & incident logs
Daily blotter entries, case closure summaries, and use-of-force reports released by the Marietta Police Department. Personally identifying information redacted per state law.
Last updated · March 13, 2025
568 documents
Zoning & planning files
Variance applications, site plans, traffic studies, and staff recommendations for every rezoning case heard by the Marietta Planning Commission since 2009. Includes the 2023 downtown redevelopment file series.
Last updated · March 7, 2025
471 documents
RFPs & contracts
Requests for proposals, awarded contracts, change orders, and vendor disclosures for the City of Marietta and Cobb County. Includes IT, construction, and professional services awards above $25,000.
Last updated · March 9, 2025
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By the numbers
Sixteen years of open records, in one searchable library
3,421
Documents indexed as of Q1 2025
Council minutes, commission agendas, school board packets, police logs, zoning files, RFPs, contracts, and correspondence.
2009–2025
Years of continuous coverage
The archive opens with documents from the Register's founding year and adds new filings every week.
27
Cobb County & City agencies represented
From the Marietta Police Department to the Cobb County School District's capital projects office.
~38
New documents filed each month
Average monthly intake, 2023–2024, with weekly drops from major agencies every Friday by 5 p.m.
Methodology
How a document makes it into the Register archive
Every record here is sourced, dated, and citable. Below is the four-step process the records desk follows before any document is published to this archive.
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Chapter 01
Open Records Act request
A reporter or records-desk staffer files a written request under the Georgia Open Records Act (O.C.G.A. § 50-18-70 et seq.) with the originating agency, citing the specific document class and date range. Requests are logged in our internal tracker within 24 hours.
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Chapter 02
Agency FOIA liaison coordination
Each of our 27 partner agencies is assigned a designated records liaison. Weekly drop schedules are confirmed each Monday; urgent filings (council votes, board decisions) are expedited and typically arrive within 72 hours of the underlying action.
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Chapter 03
Ingestion & metadata tagging
Documents are converted to searchable PDF, OCR'd where needed, and tagged with agency, document type, date, meeting reference, and any cross-references to our prior reporting. A permanent archive ID is assigned at this stage.
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Chapter 04
Redaction & publication
Personally identifying information is redacted only where required by state or federal law (juvenile records, active investigation files, protected health information). Every redaction is logged with its statutory basis. The redacted file is then published to the open archive.
Questions about a specific redaction or the chain of custody for a document? Email the records desk at [email protected] with the archive ID.
Public records belong to the public. We don't gate the archive behind a subscription wall because a city council vote in 2014 is no less consequential to a Marietta resident in 2025 than a vote held last Tuesday. This library is a civic utility — and a free one.