O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 49-5-71 (2019)

Immunity from liability for centers, state agencies, and employees

✓ 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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(a) Neither GCIC, the department, any law enforcement agency, nor the employees of any such entities shall be responsible for the accuracy of information nor have any liability for defamation, invasion of privacy, negligence, or any other claim in connection with any dissemination of information or determination based thereon pursuant to this article.

(b) A center or a child-placing agency, its director, and its employees shall have no liability for defamation, invasion of privacy, or any other claim based upon good faith action thereby pursuant to the requirements of this article.

History

Code 1981, § 49-5-72, enacted by Ga. L. 1984, p. 1397, § 1; Code 1981, § 49-5-71, as redesignated by Ga. L. 1985, p. 963, § 1; Ga. L. 1993, p. 757, § 3.

Annotations

Code Commission notes. Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in

1993, a comma was inserted following “director” in subsection (b). Editor’s notes. Ga. L. 1985, p. 963, § 1, redesignated former Code Section 49-5-71 as Code Section 49-5-70 and former Code Section 495-72 as this Code section.