by Mark Niesse | Apr 3, 2026 | James Magazine
Victims of childhood sexual abuse can’t be silenced by nondisclosure agreements in legal settlements, according to a bill that cleared the Georgia General Assembly on Thursday. The Senate voted unanimously to approve the bill, which is called Trey’s Law in...
by Mark Niesse | Apr 2, 2026 | James Magazine
The Georgia House narrowly defeated a bill Tuesday that sought to protect Confederate monuments, a proposal that opponents said glorified the South’s defense of slavery in the Civil War. The legislation would have allowed anyone to sue over the removal or...
by Mark Niesse | Mar 26, 2026 | James Magazine
When police pull over someone with autism, those stops can quickly escalate into confrontations because of miscommunications and stress. The General Assembly gave final approval Wednesday to a bill designed to alert police so they handle those situations...
by Mark Niesse | Mar 20, 2026 | News, News 2
Something unusual happened to an anti-fentanyl bill in the Georgia Senate on Monday. Republicans and Democrats listened to each other, amended the bill to target fentanyl traffickers instead of addicts, and then voted unanimously to pass it. In a highly...
by Mark Niesse | Mar 19, 2026 | James Magazine
Georgia representatives abandoned a deadline to change the state’s voting technology before this November’s election, advancing a bill Tuesday that delays a switch to hand-marked paper ballots until the 2028 election year. The amended bill wouldn’t remove...