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.
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This bill expands Georgia’s gang statutes, increases penalties related to the possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and assists prosecutors by making elder, disabled adult, or child abuse; domestic...
Under Georgia law, any two or more persons who (1) commit an unlawful act of violence or...
Under Georgia law, a person commits murder by either (1) causing the death of another person with malice aforethought (malice murder) or (2) when in the commission of a...
This bill requires the Commissioner of Corrections to publish a report of the aggregate data on the immigration status, offenses, and home countries of inmates who are...