Jody D. Peterman, LLC offers personal injury and criminal defense representation statewide in Georgia. The firm’s office is in Valdosta. If an injury or criminal matter involves Arcade, counsel can assess the circumstances and available records to discuss how the firm’s services may relate to your situation.
Useful steps to organize your matter
- Identify whether the records sought are city administrative records or police records.
- For completed city records requests, use the City of Arcade’s listed Administrative Services contact: cityofarcade@cityofarcade.org.
- For completed police records requests, use the Police Department Custodian of Records contact: arcadepolice@cityofarcade.org.
- Keep copies of records and correspondence, and note which office provided each item.
- Record the listed police contact details if needed: 3325 Athens Highway, Jefferson, GA 30549; P.O. Box 417; 706-367-1821.
- Write down the key circumstances of the injury or criminal matter and identify records that may relate to it.
- Contact Jody D. Peterman, LLC at 888-599-9052 to discuss whether its personal injury or criminal defense services may relate to your matter.
Personal injury and criminal defense
The firm describes its personal-injury practice as representation for people seriously injured because of another party’s negligence. For an injury connected to Arcade, organize the records already in your possession about the incident and its effects. Keep your own account separate from a document supplied by another person or office.
For criminal defense, the firm describes representation for clients facing serious felony charges in Georgia. Retain papers identifying the matter together and preserve the exact court or agency name printed on each item. Make your own timeline separately, with questions prompted by particular notices, records or communications alongside it.
Official resources: Firm legal services
City Administrative Services records contact
Arcade directs completed city records requests to Administrative Services at cityofarcade@cityofarcade.org. Keep the Administrative Services label and city-record description with that email in your contact notes.
For an existing city paper, retain its title, date and issuing office where shown. Keep any related inquiry and response together with the specific description of the record sought. Preserve the original agency labels on other documents so each source remains identifiable when you explain the broader matter.
Official resources: Open Records Request -- City of Arcade
Police records contact and Jefferson postal label
The Arcade Police records page directs completed police records requests to the Police Department Custodian of Records at arcadepolice@cityofarcade.org. It lists 3325 Athens Highway, Jefferson, GA 30549, with a separate P.O. Box 417 and main telephone 706-367-1821.
Preserve Jefferson as the published postal-city label for the street address and keep the P.O. Box entry separate. Retain the Custodian of Records role beside the police email and the main-phone label beside its number. Keep related correspondence with the particular document description and inquiry it concerns.
Official resources: Open Records Request -- City of Arcade Police Department
Prepare the first conversation
The firm describes the first conversation as a way to understand the general nature of a matter and identify appropriate next steps. Start with the injury or defense concern and your existing documents. Identify whether local records correspondence names city Administrative Services or the Police Custodian of Records, retaining the particular document description and each office’s published email label.
Bring your timeline, questions and existing-document list together. For an injury matter, group incident-related materials with records about its effects. For criminal defense, retain papers identifying the matter and related communications. Keep the Arcade Administrative Services or Police source label with the particular paper or inquiry behind a question.
Official resources: Firm legal services; Open Records Request -- City of Arcade; Open Records Request -- City of Arcade Police Department
Questions about Arcade
What separate city and Police records emails does Arcade publish?
Completed city requests are directed to Administrative Services at cityofarcade@cityofarcade.org. Completed police requests are directed to the Police Custodian of Records at arcadepolice@cityofarcade.org.
What street address and main phone appear on the Police records page?
It lists 3325 Athens Highway, Jefferson, GA 30549, a separate P.O. Box 417, and main telephone 706-367-1821.
General information about legal services and local resources. A lawyer must review the facts and applicable law for your matter. Contacting the firm does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship.