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We had some discussion of this in the Armaud Arbery thread, but this news item about repealing or rewriting the Citizens Arrest law deserves its own thread.
I searched for that thread and did not find it; if it's out here somewhere, moderators please merge this into the older one.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/kemp-r...tizens-arrest-law/WRG5FRXPWRC37KDYM2VLA4QTMY/
Quote:
The governor's plan would replace the roughly 150-year-old statute with a new version that includes protections for law enforcement officers and private businesses to detain lawbreakers, according to a senior official, while also addressing concerns from critics who say it's systemically abused to disproportionately target Black Georgians.
Another Quote:
Current state law allows any Georgian who believes he has witnessed a crime to arrest the suspected offender if the crime "is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge." If the crime is a felony and the person suspected of committing it is trying to flee, Georgians are allowed to arrest that person "upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion."
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The actual Code section at issue is O.C.G.A. 17-4- 60.
I searched for that thread and did not find it; if it's out here somewhere, moderators please merge this into the older one.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/kemp-r...tizens-arrest-law/WRG5FRXPWRC37KDYM2VLA4QTMY/
Quote:
The governor's plan would replace the roughly 150-year-old statute with a new version that includes protections for law enforcement officers and private businesses to detain lawbreakers, according to a senior official, while also addressing concerns from critics who say it's systemically abused to disproportionately target Black Georgians.
Another Quote:
Current state law allows any Georgian who believes he has witnessed a crime to arrest the suspected offender if the crime "is committed in his presence or within his immediate knowledge." If the crime is a felony and the person suspected of committing it is trying to flee, Georgians are allowed to arrest that person "upon reasonable and probable grounds of suspicion."
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The actual Code section at issue is O.C.G.A. 17-4- 60.