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2018 Georgia Code 49-5-187 | Car Wreck Lawyer

Link to State of Georgia Official Statute 2018 Georgia Code Annotated (sourced from legal.resource.org)
O.C.G.A. 49-5-187 Case Law from Google Scholar Amendments to OCGA 49-5-187

TITLE 49 SOCIAL SERVICES

Section 5. Programs and Protection for Children and Youth, 49-5-1 through 49-5-281.

ARTICLE 8 CENTRAL CHILD ABUSE REGISTRY

49-5-187. Immunity from civil or criminal liability.

The division and other authorized agencies, entities, and persons and the employees thereof providing information from the child abuse registry as authorized by this article and any person who uses such information shall have no civil liability or criminal responsibility therefor.

(Code 1981, §49-5-187, enacted by Ga. L. 2015, p. 552, § 11/SB 138; Ga. L. 2016, p. 773, § 8/HB 905.)

Editor's notes.

- Ga. L. 2016, p. 773, § 8/HB 905, effective July 1, 2016, reenacted this Code section without change.

Cases Citing O.C.G.A. § 49-5-187

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Georgia Dep't of Human Servs., Div. of Fam. & Child. Servs. v. Steiner, 303 Ga. 890 (Ga. 2018).

Cited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jun 18, 2018

...Protective Services Information System (“the Act”), is a statutory system that provides for the establishment and maintenance of a central registry containing information about “substantiated” cases of child abuse. See OCGA §§ 49-5-180 – 49-5-187....
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Ga. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Steiner, 815 S.E.2d 883 (Ga. 2018).

Cited 15 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Jun 18, 2018

...We reverse. I. Georgia's central child abuse registry, also known as the Child Protective Services Information System ("the Act"), is a statutory system that provides for the establishment *888and maintenance of a central registry containing information about "substantiated" cases of child abuse. See OCGA §§ 49-5-18 - 49-5-187....
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Ga. Dep't of Human Servs. v. Addison, 819 S.E.2d 20 (Ga. 2018).

Cited 13 times | Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 10, 2018 | 304 Ga. 425

...s; Bobby Cagle, who was at the time the Director of DFCS; and Frazier, all in their individual as well as official capacities.5 The plaintiffs asked the court to declare **429unconstitutional all of the Registry statutes ( OCGA §§ 49-5-180 through 49-5-187 ) along with all of the rules implementing those statutes ( Ga....
...they treat alleged abusers who are minors differently than adults, and violate the constitutional *25separation of powers because Frazier performed both executive and judicial branch functions. The court therefore declared OCGA §§ 49-5-180 through 49-5-187 and the implementing rules to be unconstitutional "on their face and as applied to" the plaintiffs and permanently enjoined the defendants from classifying the plaintiffs as substantiated child abusers on the Registry....
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Georgia Dep't of Human Servs. v. Addison, 304 Ga. 425 (Ga. 2018).

Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Sep 10, 2018

...ces; Bobby Cagle, who was at the time the Director of DFCS; and Frazier, all in their individual as well as official capacities.5 The plaintiffs asked the court to declare unconstitutional all of the Registry statutes (OCGA §§ 49-5-180 through 49-5-187) along with all of the rules implementing those statutes (Ga....
...they treat alleged abusers who are minors differently than adults, and violate the constitutional separation of powers because Frazier performed both executive and judicial branch functions. The court therefore declared OCGA §§ 49-5-180 through 49-5-187 and the implementing rules to be unconstitutional “on their face and as applied to” the plaintiffs and permanently enjoined the defendants from classifying the plaintiffs as substantiated child abusers on the Registry....