{"id":241756,"date":"2026-01-13T11:50:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=241756"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:50:46","slug":"cobb-elementary-school-principal-gets-dui-what-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=241756","title":{"rendered":"Cobb Elementary School Principal Gets DUI: What We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An elementary school principal in Cobb County is facing DUI charges after crashing her car less than half a mile from her school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Happening:<\/strong> Addison Elementary School Principal Jill Spiva was charged with DUI, open container, and causing a crash on Thursday on Ebenezer Road and Sandy Plains Road. Police found a half-empty bottle of Smirnoff vodka in a white plastic bag near the center console of her car, according to a police report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Important:<\/strong> Spiva refused a field sobriety test and a blood test. A judge signed a search warrant that forced her to have the blood test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Next:<\/strong> Cobb County Schools would not confirm Spiva’s employment status while the matter is under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDrunk driving is not an oopsie. It\u2019s not forgetting your grocery list. It\u2019s putting yourself behind the wheel of a two-ton machine while you have the reaction time of a tranquilized sloth.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An elementary school principal in Cobb County is facing DUI charges after crashing her car less than half a mile from her school. What’s Happening: Addison Elementary School Principal Jill Spiva was charged with DUI, open container, and causing a crash on Thursday on Ebenezer Road and Sandy Plains Road. Police found a half-empty bottle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":948,"featured_media":241759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[20389,8933,20390],"class_list":["post-241756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-addison-elementary-school","tag-dui","tag-jill-spiva","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}