The sheriff's over-the-top "no trick or treat" signs might make him feel better, but they're actually harming more people than they're helping.
Another Halloween, another unfounded freak-out over sex offenders.
The Cobb County Police Department then blamed Corey J's aunt for escalating the confrontation.
Price gouging is not the evil many officials make it out to be.
First and Last ignores the absurdity that many of its subjects are imprisoned, not to mention Gwinnett County Jail's own troubled record.
Benjamin Paul is a single father, a college graduate, an ordained minister, and a career adviser. And he's an ex-con.
The 87-year-old woman was cutting dandelions with a kitchen knife.
Now the Justice Department wants the money back, calling the purchase "extravagant."
The costumed comedian finds that it's not that hard to dupe politicians with irrational fears.
Catherine Bernard doesn't ask jurors to "nullify" the laws. She just urges them to perform the full range of their powerful jobs.
The officers are now on administrative leave.
Lactation consultants are the newest victims of burdensome occupational licensing laws in Georgia. Mary Jackson and the Institute for Justice are fighting back.
A 75-year-old woman who threatened to call a code enforcement officer's supervisor ended up in jail.
Your childhood is illegal now.
Although the state recognizes cannabis as a treatment for epilepsy, it says letting your son use it is "reckless conduct."
Victims of stealth taxes are suing Doraville, Georgia, for violating their due process rights.
Is this a blow against free speech or a win for free markets?
State senator proposes mandatory minimums for repeat First Amendment violators.
A proposed ordinance would fine stores $375 for shopping carts found off their premises.
The worst streetcar in America earns its title once more.
The sheriff says the cop shouldn't have done that. The incident is being investigated.
Georgia passed some asset forfeiture reforms in 2015. Can it join 14 other states that require a conviction before police can keep people's stuff?
The Sheriff who ordered the search is being charged with sexual battery.
That Pirates of the Caribbean logic did not sit well with the Georgia Supreme Court.
The city's housing authority committed to selling $138 million of government land for $17 million.
A $1,000 fine and potentially six months of jail time becomes a $75 ticket.
A lawsuit by three sober drivers who were busted for DUI questions the pot-detecting abilities of DREs.
Institute for Justice working to change that.
Lack of stun guns meets the typically poor handling of people having mental health crises.
In one case, a person whose legal identity was listed as male was arrested for sitting at a bus stop while "dressed as a woman" and carrying condoms.
State Supreme Court will hear challenge to Certificate of Need laws on Monday.
New competition from ride-sharing services is not grounds for a takings claim, Georgia Supreme Court rules, because no taking took place. Obviously.
More than 250 officers in the state are trained to recognize the use of seven different drugs.
An open-records activist sent a copy of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated to prominent Georgia politicians and lawyers and got a copyright lawsuit.
Governments in Georgia will be allowed to seize property for "economic development" purposes, undoing reforms passed in 2006 after the Kelo ruling.
The new warning would tell customers that tattoos can disqualify them from a military career.
Rep. Allen Peake is pushing to loosen restrictions.
A private school in Atlanta provides a safer alternative.
The feds still haven't implemented body cameras for their own law enforcement officers.
The "jokes" exchanged by a McIntosh County deputy and another officer included targeting black motorists for arrest and racist epithets.
Says county refuses to pay medical bills
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