Latest Georgia state government News
Georgia’s lieutenant governor won’t be charged in 2020 election interference case
ATLANTA (AP) — A special prosecutor has decided not to pursue charges against Georgia Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over efforts to overturn Donald Trump's 2020 presidential election loss in the state. Pete Skandalakis, executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia on...
Georgia school shooting stirs debate about safe storage laws for guns
Just a couple of weeks ago, a special panel of Georgia state senators convened to study potential laws aimed at keeping firearms safely locked up and out of the hands of children. A day after a 14-year-old was charged in a deadly shooting at his Georgia high school, that same panel...
Georgia lawmakers seek answers to deaths and violence plaguing the state's prisons
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia prisons remain understaffed and overwhelmed by violence and deaths, according to statistics presented to state lawmakers Wednesday. Legislators are seeking solutions to a wide range of problems plaguing prisons that have sparked a federal investigation. Among...
Georgia counties urge state elections board to stop changing rules ahead of November
ATLANTA (AP) — County election officials in Georgia are asking the State Election Board to stop changing the rules ahead of the November election, citing concerns about creating unnecessary confusion for poll workers and voters. The state board has been considering a slew of rule...
Georgia lawmaker urges panel to consider better firearms safety rules to deter child gun deaths
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state senator is trying to change the terms of an entrenched partisan debate, saying he's not interested in restricting gun ownership but in preventing the fatal shooting of children. The statement Tuesday by Decatur Democrat Emanuel Jones reflects the...
In a 2020 flashback, Georgia's GOP-aligned election board wants to reinvestigate election results
ATLANTA (AP) — Four years after the 2020 election, a newly GOP-aligned election board in Georgia is pushing to reinvestigate the state's largest county for its handling of the vote. Georgia's State Election Board voted 3-2 Wednesday to ask state Attorney General Chris Carr to...
Kamala Harris energizes South Asian voters, a growing force in key swing states
JOHNS CREEK, Ga. (AP) — A drive out to Atlanta's sprawling suburbs passes the cultural centers, schools and houses of worship that opened as this became the nation's sixth-largest metropolitan area. Displaying the diversity within the growth, shops and brightly lit billboards...
A judge is vetoing a Georgia county's bid to draw its own electoral districts, upholding state power
ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia judge is batting down an attempt by a local government to overrule state lawmakers and draw its own electoral districts, in a ruling that reinforces the supremacy of state government over local government Cobb County Superior Court Judge Kellie Hill on...
Commission chair says there's no 'single silver bullet' to improving Georgia's Medicaid program
The head of a new commission tasked with recommending improvements to Georgia's Medicaid program said Thursday that she did not see a single solution for all of the issues facing low-income and uninsured state residents. Caylee Noggle, whom Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp tapped to chair the...
Noncitizens are less likely to participate in a census with citizenship question, study says
Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren't U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries, according to a new research paper that comes as Republicans in Congress are pushing to add such a question to the census form. ...
