Metz, Brad A

Tenure Summary

Brad A. Metz's documented Georgia Department of Corrections career begins in the staff ranks and ends in facility leadership. State salary records show him as a Behavioral Health Counselor (2015), a Community Supervision Officer 2 across the 2016–2020 salary years, and then a Behavioral Health Counselor 2 (2021) and Behavioral Health Counselor 3 (2022). In 2023 he moved into a facility-deputy-tier post as Correctional Assistant Superintendent at Treutlen Probation Detention Center, a role recorded for the 2023, 2024, and 2025 salary years at $58,518.73, $65,477.44, and $70,056.48 respectively, with additional Treutlen records dated Nov. 22, 2023 and Aug. 27, 2026.

One death is attributed to Metz's leadership tenure, and it occurred at Treutlen: David Eugene Schmitt, 60, who died on Jan. 31, 2024, at a time when Metz's recorded role at that facility was Correctional Assistant Superintendent. GPS's personnel file for Metz shows no lawsuits naming him as a defendant, no intel reports logged against his facilities during his leadership tenure, and no news coverage naming him.

What happened on their watch

Treutlen Probation Detention Center — Correctional Assistant Superintendent (recorded 2023 through 2025; facility-deputy tier). One death is attributed to this posting: David Eugene Schmitt, age 60, died on Jan. 31, 2024, per GPS mortality records, which list Metz as holding the Correctional Assistant Superintendent role at the facility on that date. The mortality record carries no public narrative and no family or agency account of the circumstances; only the decedent's name, age, date, facility, and the recorded cause classification are documented. No lawsuit against Metz arising from this death appears in the records, and no intel report or news item is tied to his tenure at Treutlen.

Earlier staff-tier postings (no facility assigned in the records). Metz served as a Behavioral Health Counselor during 2015, as a Community Supervision Officer 2 during the 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020 salary years, as a Behavioral Health Counselor 2 in 2021, and as a Behavioral Health Counselor 3 in 2022. These are non-leadership positions with no facility attached in the records, and no deaths are attributed to them in this file; GPS's incident and intel lists do not cover those periods, so nothing in this record supports any statement about conditions or incidents at any facility during those years.

Because the file contains a single leadership-tier death, no comparison across postings is possible, and no systemic pattern — by cause, age, or facility finding — can be drawn from one record.

Sources

• Georgia Prisoners' Speak personnel database — position titles, facility assignments, and annual salary records for Brad A. Metz, 2015–2025 (Treutlen Probation Detention Center entries from 2023 onward)
• GPS mortality records — death of David Eugene Schmitt, age 60, on Jan. 31, 2024, at Treutlen Probation Detention Center, with Metz recorded as Correctional Assistant Superintendent on that date

Synthesized by GPS Intelligence System on Sep 23, 2026 from positions, attributed deaths, lawsuits, intel reports, and news mentions in the public corpus. The supporting data tables follow below.