Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee High School outside Atlanta.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has a significant track record of supporting pro-gun legislation. In 2022, hesigned a bill into a lawthat made it legal for gun owners in the state to carry a concealed weapon in public without first obtaining a license. MORE: Georgia high school...
The superintendent also said he wants to expand mental health care for students. The state’s voluntary Apex program steers students toward counseling. The program covered 540,000 of Georgia’s 1.75 million students in 2022-2023, about 31%. The state budget that began July...
another lawsuit filed by Hog Hammock residents is still active in McIntosh Superior Court in which they claim their constitutional rights have been violated by the new zoning rules and that the county violated state open meetings laws when it passed it. ...
Georgia’s state school superintendent says he wants the state to spend more money to guarantee security officers and wearable panic alert buttons after a school shooting killed four at Apalachee...
Georgia's gun laws were designed to disarm slaves, freedmen, and black Georgians. Whenever Blacks used arms to fight against racism and discrimination, the General Assembly responded with laws criminalizing their actions. Georgia's gun laws were not a crime prevention measure, they were Georgia'...
State of Georgia Chaplain Ronald Clark consoles students as they kneel in front of a makeshift memorial at Apalachee High School, on Sept. 5, 2024, in Winder, Georgia.Jessica McGowan/Getty Images According to the 2023 interview, Colin Gray told the dep...
Now, investigators seeking to understand the suspect’s motive are looking into his family’s previous contacts with the state’s child protective services agency, the GBI director said Wednesday. The suspect’s father told investigators this week he had purchased the gun used in the killings as...
He has spent his time in office advocating for progressive causes like expanding abortion access in the state and tightening the state’s already strict gun laws. One person close to the governor noted that Murphy, an ambassador...
Hosey said the state Division of Family and Children's Services also had previous contact with the teen and will investigate whether that has any connection with the shooting. Local news outlets reported that law enforcement on Wednesday searched the teen's family home in Bethlehem, Georgia, east...