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"Close The Sores Of War": Why Georgia Needs New Legislation To Address Its Confederate Monuments, Abigail Coker
"Close The Sores Of War": Why Georgia Needs New Legislation To Address Its Confederate Monuments, Abigail Coker
Georgia State University Law Review
Confederate monuments have been a point of contention in America for decades, but a series of events since 2015 have stoked the most recent movement calling for their removal. In 2015, Dylann Roof murdered Black churchgoers at a historically Black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Because Roof was seemingly motivated and emboldened by Confederate ideology, many focused their attention on removing the more than 700 Confederate monuments throughout the country. Then, in August 2017, a large white nationalist rally assembled in Charlottesville, Virginia, to protest the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park. The demonstrations …
Hb 479: Repeal Of Georgia's Citizen's Arrest Law, Alex Beato, Melissa Davies
Hb 479: Repeal Of Georgia's Citizen's Arrest Law, Alex Beato, Melissa Davies
Georgia State University Law Review
The Act revises private arrest powers and repeals the Georgia Citizen’s Arrest Law in its entirety. The Act provides certain arresting powers for law enforcement officers when acting outside of their jurisdiction. In addition, the Act clarifies detention powers for shopkeepers of retail, food service establishments, and other business entities under certain circumstances.