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By Jessica Cooper | March 28, 2024
A member of the Georgia First Amendment Foundation's Legislative Watch team writes that, by automating the sealing of first-offender case records, House Bill 909 removes judicial discretion and hides from Georgians those first-offender cases where public interest should prevail.
By Cheryl Miller | October 5, 2023
When it comes to legalizing psychedelics, "There's actually lots of approaches to be tried," said Eric Munevar, campaign director for the California Psilocybin Initiative 2024. "You want pressure coming from all sides of society on something like this."
By Angele Latham | The Associated Press | January 9, 2023
The exemption, called the "deliberative process privilege," is an exception to state open records laws that have been carved out by the courts. The privilege allows "high government officials" to deny records when they believe the documents are part of their "deliberative decision-making process."
By Cedra Mayfield | November 1, 2022
"A judicial spouse could earn untold sums, via legal or consulting work, from entities that have cases before their husband or wife, and the public would be none the wiser, so long as the entities paid their employer and not the spouse directly," read a statement by Fix The Court, a New York-based advocacy group.
By Everett Catts | August 3, 2022
"In a limited public forum, the government 'may be justified in reserving its forum for certain groups or for the discussion of certain topics.' Good News Club v. Milford Cent. Sch., 533 U.S. 98, 106 (2001)," a three-judge panel wrote in its opinion.
By Everett Catts | May 6, 2022
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Kelly Lee Ellerbe ruled that the Georgia Open Meetings Act requires the meeting minutes to contain the movers and the seconders on all agenda items the council voted on, but it has not done so yet for five meetings in the past two months, attorney Matthew Cardinale said.
By Jacqueline Thomsen | December 1, 2021
"By failing to respond to the request, DOJ is depriving plaintiffs and the public of vital information needed to determine whether the government is colluding or conspiring with outside entities to carry out a political agenda," the lawsuit reads.
By Allison Dunn | November 19, 2021
Judge Amy Totenberg of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia previously characterized the emails as containing "inadvisable 'hot takes,'" "inflammatory remarks," and "clear preferences for policy outcomes."
By Greg Land | September 20, 2021
The Fulton County District Attorney ultimately received the records it sought in the 2016 death of Javarion Robinson, shot 76 times by members of a multiagency task force overseen by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By Marcia Coyle and Mike Scarcella | March 22, 2021
The appeals court issued a notice titled "Preferred Typefaces for Briefs" that essentially declared—but did not mandate—Garamond a dead letter.
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