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The bill was signed into law by Governor of Georgia Brian P. Kemp on June 26, 2020. [3] [46] [47] [48] In November 2020, Macon, Georgia mayor Robert Reichert vetoed an anti-discrimination ordinance for all Macon residents who are LGBTQIA+. The ordinance had received the majority of the vote from residents and a 5-4 vote by the Macon-Bibb ...
Georgia was the most resistant state to raising its age of consent in the early 1900s. Georgia's age of consent was 10 years old until 1918, at which time the age of consent was raised to 14. [38] After raising the age of consent in 1918, Georgia was the only state in the United States to have an age of consent lower than 16. [29]
The present law aims to eliminate any form of discrimination and to censure equal enjoyment of the rights set forth by the legislation of Georgia for all natural and legal persons regardless of race, color, language, sex, age, nationality, origin, place of birth, residence, property or title, national, ethnic or social belonging, profession ...
[152] [153] [154] After the 1918 law changes, Georgia still had the lowest age of consent in the country, because all 47 other states had raised their ages of consent to 16 or 18. [104] The Georgia age of consent remained at 14 until 1995, when a bill proposed by Steve Langford to make 16 the age of consent passed.
Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186 (1986), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court that upheld, in a 5–4 ruling, the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law criminalizing oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults, in this case with respect to homosexual sodomy, though the law did not differentiate between homosexual and heterosexual sodomy. [1]
In 2015, eleven states — including Florida and New York — had introduced laws that allowed for diversion programs as a punishment for teen sexting, according to the Cyberbullying Research ...
The shooting at Apalachee High School -- which left two students and two teachers dead Wednesday -- has brought renewed attention to Georgia's lax gun laws. The advocacy group Everytown for Gun ...
The only information he claimed law enforcement possessed was the IP address that was accessing a YAHOO Chat room through an nTelos wireless connection. During the investigation, law enforcement discovered that the ISP only retained the Media access control address and IP history for 30 days, a limit that foreclosed their opportunity to access ...