Closing the public record: Last minute revisions to a Senare bill would exempt communications between state lawmakers and the executive branch or private entities from disclosure under Georgia's Open Records Act. https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/04/03/georgia-open-records-threatened-sb12/

Tell your representatives to vote "no" on SB 12.
#politics #GAPol #legislation #GAGeneralAssembly #governmentAccountability

#TheGremlinZoo #USPol #DOJ #GAPol #VotingRights

From Reuters.com: In a change of course, US Justice Dept drops challenge to Georgia voting law

https://www.aol.com/news/change-course-us-justice-dept-163831029.html

Georgia House Republicans have stripped HB127, which was written to increase the number of sick days teachers can take, and replaced its original provisions with a law meant to penalize schools for DEI programs. https://capitol-beat.org/2025/03/senate-republicans-try-legislative-maneuver-to-ban-dei-in-georgia-schools-and-colleges/
#politics #GAPol #DEI #legislation #GAGeneralAssembly

After passing through the House Public and Community Health Committee, Georgia's SB 30 will no longer ban puberty blockers outright, but will require parents to consult multiple specialists, making the treatment "really hard to get." https://capitol-beat.org/2025/03/puberty-blocker-bill-moving-through-georgia-house-after-some-changes/
#politics #GAPol #legislation #GaGeneralAssembly #transRights

Georgia Republicans have reworked HB 397, a two-page bill allowing municipalities to forego Saturday early voting in local races, into a 27-page potpourri of election procedure rewrites that didn't make it past Crossover Day. Let your legislators know that you're opposed. https://theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/the-return-of-the-hand-count
#politics #GAPol #legislation #GAGeneralAssembly #elections #voterRights

Advocates for sexual assault survivors warn that SB 68, the centerpiece of Governor Kemp's push for "tort reform," will make it virtually impossible for survivors to seek justice against businesses that expose them to abuse.

CW: discussion of sexual abuse https://georgiarecorder.com/2025/03/18/human-trafficking-emerges-as-new-front-in-georgia-legislative-tension-over-lawsuit-limits/
#politics #legislation #GAPol #GAGeneralAssembly

Georgia committee that has pursued Fani Willis now wants to investigate Stacey Abrams

#GaPol #GOPcorruption

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-republicans-senate-stacey-abrams-61b39a394df9ba53ad2ebb7e8e329d16

#TheGremlinZoo #DOGE #GAPol

From CNN.com: GOP congressman faces criticism and several boos at Georgia town hall

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/politics/rich-mccormick-georgia-trump?cid=ios_app

"City leadership has made it crystal clear for them that a real, functioning, effective Office of Inspector General is not welcome in Atlanta." https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/02/17/atlanta-inspector-general-resigns/
#politics #GAPol #Atlanta #ATLPol #accountability

@upstreamism

“In a statement to WABE, current State School Superintendent Richard Woods said the right to elect the state superintendent should not be taken away from Georgians.” Damn straight! #GaPol #Resist

Georgia Senate Bill 39 would bar state insurance plans from paying for trans-affirming health care. https://roughdraftatlanta.com/2025/02/06/georgia-senate-bill-trans-healthcare/ #politics #legislation #Georgia #GAPol #transRights #healthcare

Georgia friends: Call Ossoff (470-786-7800) and Warnock (770-694-7828). Tell them your name, where you (so they know you’re a voter) and to do everything they can to shut down the Senate until Musk’s criminal actions stop. #gapol #atlanta #georgia

"Tort reform," in this context, means limiting the corporate responsibility. https://capitol-beat.org/2025/01/kemp-unveils-comprehensive-tort-reform-package/ #GAPol #tortReform #legislation

Most Georgia voters reject [checks notes] the thing they just voted for a few weeks ago.
https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-news/ajc-poll-most-georgia-voters-reject-mass-deportations/5UPUIZNCSZHOFPYIJUYN45VPN4/ #gapol #immigration #politics #election #atlanta #fascism

This group of amazing kids from the New Georgia Project have knocked on a staggering 835,000 doors in Georgia this year!!! #GaPol #Georgia #ElectionDay #Vote.

There’s already been several bomb threats in Atlanta.

Destiny Thomas, a Law Student and Voter Protection Volunteer, tells me: “The effect of them, to suppress, to intimidate, to make people scared to come vote — that effect has already been felt.”

@SteveThompson

“The Board of Elections said that more than 1,000 of the absentee ballots being mailed late were being sent to people outside of Georgia.”

#VoterSuppression just as the GOP legislature intended when they changed the absentee ballot law in 2021

#GaPol #GOP is anti democracy #VoteThemAllOut