Please find a copy of the complaint HERE .

In response to the rapid diversification of Cobb County and the growing political power of the County’s Black and Latinx1 population, the Cobb County Board of Education (the “Board”) and state legislators improperly used race as a predominant factor in drawing the boundaries of districts 2, 3, and 6 (“District 2,” “District 3,” and “District 6,” respectively, and together the “Challenged Districts. [...] The Board approved the Chairman’s proposed plan along racial lines, over the objections of the Board’s Black members, while also rejecting a Black Board member’s proposal to retain the 2012-enacted redistricting plan, which, upon information and belief, met the redistricting criteria available to the Board members at the time. [...] Since the white-member majority on the Board shrunk from 6-1 to 4-3 following the 2018 election cycle, the Board has targeted Black and Latinx students and parents as well as the Black members of the Board for disparate treatment. [...] The class had been working through a math problem and the answer consisted, in part, of the letters “K-K-K.” Ignoring the concerns of students of color, the 29 teacher drew attention to these letters and laughed to the class about them. [...] Despite giving the Black Board members and members of the community less than a day to review the new districts, the Board approved the Taylor English map at the December 9, 2021 Board Work Session, with the vote splitting along racial lines.