[10]The Poulan Police Department has been featured in numerous articles by investigative journalists, most notably for its speed trap tactics since 2009.

[11][12][13] The city attorney; former Albany, Georgia mayor Tommy Coleman[14] has repeatedly defended the enforcement tactics, as well as the Poulan and Warwick Police Departments.

A local NBC/ABC affiliate, WALB, featured a story on the resident who claimed that Poulan Police Officers were given specific quotas.

Poulan Police Chief Larry Whisenant,[20] explicitly refuted this claim and denied that any officers were given quotas[18] for speeding citations.

[22] The report calculated that the Poulan Police Department produced more income than the cost of the agency to the city's budget.

[22] Poulan Police commanders were specifically asked for documents showing the amount of income received from speeding related citations.

[16] Worth County Sheriff Don Whitaker also defended the City of Poulan in an interview he participated in for the report.

[24] While Schlosser denied the allegations, she stated that there were concerns about the background and supposed criminal past of the council member.