Published | Supreme Court of Georgia | Oct 31, 2024
...rehabilitative services, residential housing, health services, and
social services . . . to sexually exploited children” and to fund “a
person, entity, or program devoted to awareness and prevention of
becoming a sexually exploited child.” OCGA §
15-21-202 (c)....
...protect a child from further victimization after he or she is
discovered to be a sexually exploited child by ensuring that a child
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protective response is in place in this state.” Ga. L. 2015, p. 675.31
See also OCGA §
15-21-202 (c) (explaining that the money raised by
the Assessment may be used “for purposes of providing care,
rehabilitative services, residential housing, health services, and
social services ....
...ly
says it was: to “protect a child from further victimization after he or
she is discovered to be a sexually exploited child by ensuring that a
child protective response is in place in this state.” Ga. L. 2015, p.
675, § 1-2. See also OCGA §
15-21-202 (c) (establishing a fund
created by the Assessment to be used “for purposes of providing care,
rehabilitative services, residential housing, health services, and
social services ....
...at 800, there is no “precise” or “direct” connection
between burdening protected speech (i.e., nude dancing) and
providing “care, rehabilitative services, residential housing, health
services, and social services” for “sexually exploited children.” See
OCGA §
15-21-202 (c).
Moreover, there is no indication that the State would provide
services to sexually exploited children or engage in preventative
efforts less effectively if those services and prevention programs
were funded by a generally a...
