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Kemp leads bipartisan effort to repeal citizen’s arrest law
ATLANTA — Gov. Brian Kemp wants to repeal the state’s Civil War-era citizen’s arrest law. Lawmakers and civil ... Read more
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Georgia lawmakers eye citizen’s arrest changes, no-knock warrants ban
ATLANTA — State lawmakers are working this year on legislation to change Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law, ban no-knock ... Read more
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Rights advocates call for repeal of Georgia citizen’s arrest law
ATLANTA — Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law has a history of racism and encourages civilians lacking law enforcement training ... Read more
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Georgia House panel to examine citizen’s arrest law
ATLANTA — Georgia House Speaker David Ralston is living up to his pledge to consider moving criminal justice ... Read more
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Citizen’s arrest law, unfinished police reforms await 2021 Ga. Legislature
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers returned to the Capitol in mid-June in a state transformed not only by the ... Read more
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Bipartisan lawmakers push to do away with citizen’s arrest law
ATLANTA — After the death of Ahmaud Arbery in Brunswick, a bipartisan group of legislators is pushing to do ... Read more
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Lawmakers press change to citizen’s arrest law cited in Arbery case
ATLANTA — Georgia lawmakers are considering revising the state’s citizen’s arrest law after a southeast Georgia prosecutor cited ... Read more
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EDITORIAL: Not how ‘citizen’s arrest’ is supposed to work
Vigilante justice doesn’t have a good reputation anywhere. In the South it’s infused with a racial past highlighted ... Read more