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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.
Below are just a few of the many priority bills that we actively worked on durinng the 2023 legislative session.
Visit the Georgia General Assembly website to search all legislation from the current session.
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...