On the Thursday, March 28 edition of Georgia Today: Lawyers for Donald Trump were in a Fulton County courtroom again today; Macon-Bibb County wants access to your doorbell cameras; 17 North Georgia counties have been declared natural disaster areas because of severe drought conditions.
The Macon Bibb County Sheriff’s office is asking people who own doorbell cameras and other surveillance systems to join a new program giving officers easier access to the footage.
Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in the state’s first execution in over four years last week. But despite the case’s significance and national attention over Pye, the public’s view of the execution itself was restricted under state protocol blocking critical parts of the process.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump argued in a court filing that the charges against him in the Georgia election interference case seek to criminalize political speech and advocacy conduct that is protected by the First Amendment. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee plans to hear arguments on that filing and on two pretrial motions filed by former Georgia Republican Party chair David Shafer during a hearing set for Thursday.
Today is the last day of Georgia's two-year legislative session.
The state Senate has given final passage to a bill that would ban what it calls quote "foreign adversaries" from buying certain pieces of property.
Georgia Power and state regulators have reached a tentative agreement on Georgia Power’s request to update its integrated resource plan, or IRP, and ramp up energy production in the face of new demand from things like data centers and electric vehicle manufacture.
Georgia Senate Republicans passed a bill Tuesday that requires transgender kids to use the school bathroom that is consistent with their sex at birth, not their gender identity. The mother of a trans child spoke with GPB's Peter Biello about how the bill, if signed into law, would change her child's life.
On the Wednesday, March 27 edition of Georgia Today: Ahmaud Arbery's killings have filed an appeal; lawmakers want to prevent foreign governments from buying farmland in Georgia; Peter Biello talks with the mother of a transgender student about a proposed bill that focuses on transgender kids and the bathrooms they should use.
Georgia Power and state energy regulators have agreed on a plan to increase the Atlanta-based utility’s electrical generating capacity including the construction of three new gas combustion turbines at Plant Yates near Newnan.