The ACLU of Georgia has an ambitious agenda to protect and advance the civil liberties and rights of all Georgians during the 2024 Legislative Session. We are focusing our efforts on:
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Each year, we review hundreds of bills introduced in the Georgia Legislature for civil liberties implications, identifying those bills that we are going to advocate for or against and developing strategies accordingly.
We educate legislators and the public about ACLU-GA positions, draft legislation on priority issues, lobby on bills affecting civil liberties, testify or arrange for testimony on bills, and build coalitions to pursue pro-active legislative initiatives or battle anti-civil liberties legislation.
You can stay on top of the bills we are tracking on this page (below) or through our tracker on Fast Democracy, where you can subscribe for real time updates.
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ACLU of Georgia Legislative Scorecards shows how your state legislators voted on bills related to our priority issues during the legislative session.
During the legislative session, the Georgia Senate voted on Senate Bill (SB) 63, which is legislation that would require cash bond for 30+ offenses including things like criminal trespass, and criminalizes bail funds. The ACLU of Georgia opposes SB 63 in the strongest possible terms.
SEE THE SENATE BILL 63 SCORECARD
This creates a new criminal offense of election interference with a deep fake, a felony punishable by one to five years imprisonment and up to $50,000 fine. It prohibits people from creating and publishing...
This bill prevents state colleges and universities from accepting diversity statements from applicants seeking employment and academic candidates seeking admission. It positions diversity statements as "...
Current Georgia law provides extremely severe sanctions for the manufacture, delivery, distribution, dispensing, administration, selling, or possessing with intent to distribute controlled substances. This...
This bill amends Title 21 to eliminate the use of bar codes, QR codes, and other machine coding on ballots as well as the use of dropboxes. The bill also adds a new subsection to Title 21 that would require...
