Under what circumstances can a resident based in Georgia sue your local government for crimes committed by another person?
Under Senate Bill 21The answer can depend on the chamber's public security committee on Wednesday and can depend on the immigration status of the person concerned.
The law sponsored by Vidalia Republican Senator Blake Tilley House bill 1105 This tried to punish the local governments that could not work with officials from the US immigration and customs authorities. Tilley's legislative template would go further and the local government agencies would tax their sovereign and state immunities from lawsuits if an undocumented person commits a crime.
At the hearing of the Senate Committee of the Senate, in which the draft law was discussed, Tillery argued that SB 21 would ensure that the existing immigration laws in Georgia were properly enforced.
“Everything that Senate Bill 21 says is when a local government or a local government official does not enforce the immigration law of Georgia, that they do without their sovereign immunity and are open to civil lawsuits from the law of Georgia Can, “he said,” he said, “he said,” he said, “he said,” he said, “he said,” he said, he said, “he said,” he “.
However, skeptics of the law pointed out that the new law could have far -reaching consequences for members of law enforcement authorities, educators and other government employees. The legislation could also lead to an increase in the legal steps against local government agencies at a time top priority.
Mike Mitchell, who acts as deputy executive director of the Georgia Sheriffs' Association, refused to support the bill, and expressed doubts about the need for further laws so soon after HB 1105. Last year became effective in May 2024, which means that the local law enforcement agencies have until May 2025 to enter into understanding with the federal law enforcement authorities.
“With House Bill 1105 last year there are already many of these mandates – in fact they are criminalized,” he said. “The sheriffs already adhere to these standards and also have to report to the audits every year that they meet these mandates.”
The Senate's Democrats have also returned to the draft law and argue that they could open up employees of public school employment for excessive complaints because they did not reveal their students' immigration status to the authorities.
“I think I hear them say that the teacher who decides to make the ice that this child or parents of this child is the ice point when we say goodbye to this law because our sanctuary laws are so wide and Refuge for this child could be viewed and they therefore violate this law, ”said Senator Kim Jackson, a Stone Mountain Democrat.
The opponents of the draft law, including the political director of the political relationship council for American-Islamic relationships, Megan Gordon, also expressed concerns how teachers and school administrators would result in all conflicts between state and federal law. As part of a pioneering decision by the Supreme Court of 1982, states cannot refuse to access the students of the students of the students to public education based on their immigration status, which Gordon said that they would conflict with the wording of SB 21.
“These laws are mutually exclusive,” she said. “But the interpretation of the constitutional rights of children of the Supreme Court will always outdo the state law, which I think that this committee is returned to this committee.”
SB 21 was dismissed in a 5: 3 vote according to party borders. It is now going to the Senate for a floor vote.
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