Fulton Co. Jail security guards walk out after company not paid [Video]

FULTON COUNTY, Ga. — Security guards employed by a third-party contractor at the Fulton County Jail walked off the job on Thursday after a funding deficit left a roughly $1 million deficit, Sheriff Pat Labat said during a news conference.

Labat said Strategic Security Corp. made a decision — one that Labat described as “regrettable” — on Thursday to text workers to walk off the job, despite previously making a written decision it would have workers pull off the job on Friday.

“Unfortunately and regrettably, at around 2:15 today, company employees were told to vacate their jobs, abandon their position and not to come into work tonight,” Labat said.

11Alive spoke to the company’s CEO over the phone before and after the press conference. …