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O.C.G.A. § 20-8-7 (2019)

Public disclosure of campus police records

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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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Law enforcement records created, received, or maintained by campus policemen that relate to the investigation of criminal conduct and crimes as defined under Georgia law and which are not subject to protection from disclosure by any other Georgia law shall be made available within a reasonable time after request for public inspection and copying.

History

(Code 1981, § 20-8-7, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 519, § 5/HB 1302.)

Annotations

Editor's notes. - Ga. L. 2006, p. 519, § 7/HB 1302, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that: "Any offense committed before July 1, 2006, shall be punishable as provided by the statute in effect at the time the offense was committed."

Ga. L. 2006, p. 519, § 7/HB 1302, not codified by the General Assembly, provides that this Code section applies to all crimes committed on or after July 1, 2006.

JUDICIAL DECISIONS

Cited in Hartley v. Agnes Scott College, 295 Ga. 458, 759 S.E.2d 857 (2014).

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Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2013–2014 · leading case: Hartley v. Agnes Scott Coll., 759 S.E.2d 857 (Ga. 2014).
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Hartley v. Agnes Scott Coll., 759 S.E.2d 857 (Ga. 2014). · cites it 2× “Moreover, the defendants cite no authority for the proposition that mere licensure by a state government entity, or the sort of training, oversight, and discipline in which state licensing boards engage, suffice to make the licensee’s torts attributable to the licensing agency —…”
Agnes Scott Coll. v. Hartley, 741 S.E.2d 199 (Ga. Ct. App. 2013). · cites it 2× “Further, in direct response to this Court’s holding in Mercer, the legislature acted promptly to counteract this Court’s interpretation of the Open Records Act and enacted OCGA § 20-8-7 in 2006, which requires campus police departments, public or private, to make records related…”
Agnes Scott Coll. v. Amanda Hartley, No. A12A1989 (Ga. Ct. App. Mar. 29, 2013). · cites it 2× “Further, in direct response to this Court’s holding in Mercer, the legislature acted promptly to counteract this Court’s interpretation of the Open Records Act and enacted OCGA § 20-8-7 in 2006, which requires campus police departments, public or private, to make records related…”
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