Kendrick Butts

Introduction

Kendrick Butts is the chairman of the Baldwin County Board of Commissioners in Milledgeville, Georgia, who was arrested on October 14, 2026, and charged with terroristic threats and acts after an incident report says he threatened to kill a family member — a threat captured on the family member’s Ring camera.

Background Information

Butts was elected District Two commissioner in Baldwin County and serves as chairman of the county’s Board of Commissioners, the top elected post in the county government centered in Milledgeville. The case against him arises entirely from a domestic dispute at his residence — no public or county property figures in the allegations.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Charged, not convicted. Butts has been arrested and charged; the case has not been tried. The account below comes from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office incident report as reported by WGXA, and he is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

According to the incident report obtained from the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office, deputies made contact with a family member of Butts who claimed Butts had made threats against their life. The family member said a verbal altercation on Tuesday — October 13, 2026 — ended with Butts threatening to end their life, leading the family member to call 911. Deputies responded, but took no action because the family member had left the scene.

The following morning, Wednesday, the family member heard Butts on a phone call repeating the threat — audio captured by their Ring camera inside the residence. The family member provided the footage to deputies, and per the report Butts can be heard saying that the family member “called 911…I did tell her motherf***** I’ll kill you.”

Butts was booked into the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and charged with terroristic threats and acts. Investigators documented the incident by obtaining a witness statement and uploading the Ring camera footage of the phone call into their system.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The incident report contains several details that shaped how the case reads: the family member had lived with Butts for over 30 days but willingly moved out and advised she would not return. Butts then requested that the victim be issued a criminal trespass warning — a legal bar on her returning to the property. And although Butts is not accused of any physical contact, a sheriff’s office deputy identified him as the primary aggressor in the case.

The arrest of a sitting county commission chairman on a charge built on his own recorded words made the case a local scandal in Baldwin County politics, with the incident report’s account of the trespass-warning request — asked for by the accused against the person who reported him — standing out as its most contentious detail.

Current Status

Butts was booked and charged with terroristic threats and acts, a felony under Georgia law. No court dates, bond details, or resignation statements were reported in the available coverage as of mid-October 2026, and his seat on the Board of Commissioners was unchanged in the reporting.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A chairman whose voice is the evidence against him faces a prosecution in which the disputed facts are minimal: the recording, the 911 call, and the deputy’s primary-aggressor finding come from the sheriff’s own incident report. Whatever the court outcome, the chairman of the Baldwin County Board of Commissioners was arrested, booked and charged within a single day of the recorded threat — and the family member he allegedly threatened had already left the home he asked officials to bar her from re-entering.

Sources

• WGXA: “Commissioner Butts arrested on terroristic threats charge after alleged family threat” source