The camera doesn\u2019t blink.
\nIt watches as Patty Durand, the outspoken Georgia Power critic, reaches for the booklets that would end with her in handcuffs. One motion. One bag. One exit. Now she\u2019s facing a felony, accused of stealing corporate secrets in the middle of a high\u2011stakes power fight that could reshape Georgia\u2019s future, its bills, its po\u2026<\/p>\n
Patty Durand\u2019s arrest lands at the explosive intersection of money, power, and electricity in Georgia. As a watchdog who has spent years accusing Georgia Power and the Public Service Commission of hiding the real costs of data center expansion, she is now cast as the alleged thief of the very documents she\u2019s long demanded be made public. Supporters see a silencing of a critic; opponents see proof she crossed a bright legal line.<\/p>\n
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