by K B | Sep 29, 2023 | Events, News, Weltner Award
Oct. 26 banquet will celebrate Oliver’s nearly four decades of legislative service and work to protect open government and free speech in Georgia. Admired for her civility and bipartisanship, state Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver will receive the Georgia First...
by K B | Sep 28, 2023 | Events, News, Weltner Award
The Georgia First Amendment Foundation honors the Georgia Library Media Association’s efforts to safeguard constitutional rights. Libraries in Georgia schools strive to uphold students’ constitutional right to receive information and to give students opportunities to...
by K B | Jul 18, 2023 | News
The Georgia First Amendment Foundation is urging the Supreme Court of Georgia to reconsider lower court rulings that limit public access to police body camera video. In a friend-of-the-court brief, the foundation supports a petition for writ of certiorari filed by The...
by K B | May 5, 2023 | News
Lower court decisions in medical cannabis case erode Georgians’ right to know. The Georgia First Amendment Foundation is asking the Supreme Court of Georgia to protect citizens’ rights to access judicial records by reversing lower court rulings. In its petition...
by K B | Apr 21, 2023 | News
By Mia McKnight Research shows nearly one in five transgender and nonbinary youth attempt suicide, and the rate is even higher among young people of color. Despite these alarming statistics, the Georgia Legislature has considered—and in one case passed—bills blocking...
by K B | Apr 18, 2023 | News
By Madi Blair A year after it was enacted, Georgia’s so-called “book banning” law is leading to confusion and censorship in our schools. The law, passed in April 2022 as Senate Bill 226, allows parents and guardians to submit complaints about the content of “material”...
by K B | Mar 14, 2023 | News
By Richard T. Griffiths Well-intentioned, but not thought through. That’s Georgia Senate Bill 215, the Harry Potter invisibility cloak for Georgia’s government employees. SB 215 is well-intentioned because it is aimed at providing a little sense of security to public...
by K B | Dec 30, 2022 | News
By Kathy Brister With your help this year, the Georgia First Amendment Foundation worked to protect and expand Georgians’ right to know what’s happening in government at all levels across our state and in our courts. Here are some of the ways the Georgia First...
by K B | Nov 14, 2022 | News
By Richard T. Griffiths It was called the Hope Act. In 2019, the Georgia Legislature passed and the governor signed a law allowing medical patients access to cannabis oil. The law was strict: According to rules of a newly established Georgia Access to Medical Cannabis...
by K B | Nov 3, 2022 | Events, News
During the Georgia First Amendment Foundation’s 2022 Weltner Banquet, Susan Weltner Yow paid tribute to her late father’s commitment to government of the people. Here are her remarks, given on Oct. 27, 2022, to banquet attendees at the Emory Conference Center in...
