O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 17-4-22 (2019)

Authority of peace officers to make arrests not to be denied because of race, creed, or national origin of peace officers or persons arrested

✓ O.C.G.A. — 2019 edition (Public.Resource.Org Release 73)
Code text and O.C.G.A. statutory annotations on this page reflect the 2019 Official Code of Georgia Annotated (Public.Resource.Org Release 73, 2019-08-21; public domain per Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, 2020). The Syfert case-law annotations in Notes of Decisions, below, are current.
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No peace officer of this state or of any political subdivision thereof shall be denied the authority to arrest any person because of the race, creed, or national origin of the peace officer nor because of the race, creed, or national origin of the person who is being arrested.

History

Ga. L. 1969, p. 732, § 1.

Annotations

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 16B Am. Jur. 2d, Constitutional Law, § 922 et seq.

C.J.S. - 22 C.J.S., Criminal Procedure and Rights of the Accused, § 264 et seq.