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As a new assistant district attorney in 1979, I started my prosecution career in Savannah, Chatham County. In that office at that time, there was established one of the first victim/witness advocacy programs in the state of Georgia.
Jack Guerin Special to the USA TODAY Network Through our recent national traumas, we’ve learned the importance of the rule of law. No one in our society should be above the law including the Delaware General Assembly. As Thomas Jefferson warned, “Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves therefore are its only safe depositories.” Our lawmakers have used their lawmaking power to exempt themselves from the section of the Delaware Code known as the “State Employees’, Officers’ and Officials’ Code of Conduct” and from over...
AllOnGeorgia March 9, 2021 Georgia Senators had a vote of 33-20 that rejected a bill that would raise their own pay. A similar bill was withdrawn from the General Calendar and recommitted to the Rules Committee on March 3, 2021 in the House of Representatives. On the same day, the house bill was then favorably reported by the Committee Substitute. According to the State Compensation Commission(read below), lawmaker pay has been the same since 1999. The First Reader Summary for Senate Bill 252: A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Article 1 of Chapter 7 of Title 45 of the Official Code of Ge...
25 Feb 2021 The Georgia House is weighing legislation to end the state’s requirement that law-abiding citizens acquire a permit from the state in order to carry a handgun for self-defense. The legislation, House Bill 110, is sponsored by five Republican State Reps and one Democrat. Those Reps. are Clark Heath (R), Steve Tarvin (R), Emory Donahoo (R), Joseph Gullet (R) , Danny Mathis (R), and Mike Glanton (D). The text of HB110 says: To amend Part 1 of Article 1 of Chapter 3 of Title 12, Title 16, and Title 27 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to general provisions regardin...
On Feb. 5, the University of Georgiaâs First Amendment clinic sent its second letter to the Oconee County School Board asking for the board to increase transparency with the community, promote more virtual accessibility to board meetings and unblock members of the community on its Twitter account. The First Amendment clinic is a semester-long course offered at UGAâs law school to law students after the completion of their first year. The clinic, which first launched in August 2020, is led by clinic fellow Samantha Hamilton and director Clare Norins. Mark Bailey, Davis Wright and Amy...