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

O.C.G.A. § 20-2-750 (2019)

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✓ 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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This subpart shall be known and may be cited as the “Public School Disciplinary Tribunal Act.”

History

Ga. L. 1979, p. 663, § 1.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Local board required to consider student’s affirmative defense of self defense. - Judgment upholding the decision of a local board of education (local board) expelling a student for fighting was reversed because the record fully supported that the student properly raised

the issue of self-defense before the local board and that the board failed to apply the proper law and make the board’s own findings of fact on the issue. Henry County Bd. of Educ. v. S. G., 301 Ga. 794, 804 S.E.2d 427, 2017 Ga. LEXIS 689 (2017).

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 7 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1996–2026 · leading case: Prof'l Standards Comm'n v. Alberson, 614 S.E.2d 132 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005).
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Prof'l Standards Comm'n v. Alberson, 614 S.E.2d 132 (Ga. Ct. App. 2005). · cites it 2× “See OCGA § 20-2-750 et seq. This evidence in the administrative record, taken together, was sufficient to permit the PSC to conclude that Superintendent Alberson’s conduct was “detrimental to the .”
D. B. v. Clarke Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 469 S.E.2d 438 (Ga. Ct. App. 1996). · cites it 2× “In enacting the Public School Disciplinary Tribunal Act, OCGA § 20-2-750 et seq., the Georgia General Assembly recognized that local boards properly may limit students’ access to education in response to disciplinary infractions.”
Henry Cnty. Bd. of Educ. v. S. G., 804 S.E.2d 427 (Ga. 2017). · cites it 2× “The legislature has provided for the establishment of student disciplinary standards by local boards of education, as well as procedures for imposing suspension or expulsion upon a finding that a student has violated those standards after a disciplinary officer or a tribunal has…”
C. P. R. v. Henry Cnty. Bd. of Educ., 763 S.E.2d 725 (Ga. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “1 For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that there was sufficient evidence to support that determination and therefore affirm.”
K. B. v. Cobb Cnty. Sch. Dist. (Ga. Ct. App. 2026). · cites it 4× “See OCGA § 20-2-750 et seq. 4 S. G., 301 Ga. at 798 (2).”
M.B. v. Henry Cnty. Bd. of Educ. (Ga. Ct. App. 2026). · cites it 2× “Because review of the Local Board’s decision by an appellate body is governed by the any evidence standard of review, and the Local Board here did not make a factual finding on the issue of timeliness, we conclude that both the Superior Court and the State Board overstepped…”
C.P.R. v. Henry Cnty. Bd. of Educ. (Ga. Ct. App. 2014). · cites it 2× “1 For the reasons discussed below, we conclude that there was sufficient evidence to support that determination and therefore affirm.”
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