By Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Landay
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Law&nbsp;enforcement&nbsp;officials are investigating&nbsp;threats&nbsp;related to former President Donald&nbsp;Trump's election interference investigation in&nbsp;Georgia,&nbsp;after&nbsp;names and addresses of&nbsp;grand&nbsp;jury&nbsp;members were posted&nbsp;online, a sheriff's office said.
"Our investigators are working closely with local, state, and federal&nbsp;law&nbsp;enforcement&nbsp;agencies to track down the origin of&nbsp;threats&nbsp;in Fulton County and other jurisdictions," the Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a statement on Thursday.
Posts on social media of the purported names and addresses of the Fulton County&nbsp;grand&nbsp;jury&nbsp;were tracked by Advance Democracy, a non-profit research organization whose president, Dan Jones, is a former FBI investigator and staffer for the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Two NBC News reporters who wrote about the&nbsp;grand&nbsp;jury&nbsp;incident later had their own purported addresses posted&nbsp;online, according to the group's latest draft report seen by Reuters.
The organization also found posts employing violent rhetoric against Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, who oversaw the more-than-two-year investigation of a suspected scheme by&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;and 18 others to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
"Statements by&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;and his allies continue to inspire violent language and&nbsp;threats&nbsp;online," Jones told Reuters.
"The latest&nbsp;threats&nbsp;against&nbsp;jury&nbsp;members shows you don&rsquo;t have to be a politician or government official to be the target. It&rsquo;s critical that the Fulton County Sheriff's Office take this matter seriously. Equally important is that political leaders on the right denounce these&nbsp;threats&nbsp;and the statements that inspire them."
Fulton County contains Atlanta,&nbsp;Georgia's largest city and the state capital.
This month, following an indictment by U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith on Republican&nbsp;Trump's efforts to overturn his election defeat to Democrat Joe Biden,&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;lashed out on his Truth Social media site, saying, "IF YOU GO&nbsp;AFTER&nbsp;ME, I'M COMING&nbsp;AFTER&nbsp;YOU!"
The 98-page&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;indictment on Monday listed 19 defendants and 41 criminal counts in all. Echoing his criticism of the other investigations he faces,&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;has called the indictment a political "witch hunt."&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;is the front-runner for the Republican nomination to run for president in the 2024 election.
"We take this matter very seriously and are coordinating with our&nbsp;law&nbsp;enforcement&nbsp;partners to respond quickly to any credible threat and to ensure the safety of those individuals who carried out their civic duty," the sheriff's office said.
An indictment in&nbsp;Georgia&nbsp;that is available as a public record includes the names of&nbsp;grand&nbsp;jurors but not their addresses or any other personally identifiable information.
A woman from Texas was charged this month with threatening the federal judge overseeing&nbsp;Trump's separate criminal case in Washington about the 2020 election.
Reports by Advance Democracy, which conducts public interest investigations, this week found posts by users on at least four social media websites targeting the&nbsp;grand&nbsp;jurors that "often included violent rhetoric."
"These jurors have signed their death warrant by falsely indicting President&nbsp;Trump," one report quoted a poster as saying.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Landay in Washington; Editing by Scott Malone, Grant McCool and Don Durfee)

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