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Committee advances bill letting officers mark ‘refused to sign’ on traffic citations
Summary
House Bill 283, advanced by the Senate Public Safety Committee, would allow officers to mark a citation as 'refused to sign' when an encounter raises safety concerns, a change supporters say could reduce negative encounters and free officers for higher-priority calls.
The Georgia Senate Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to advance House Bill 283, a measure supporters say will reduce tense interactions between officers and civilians by allowing officers to record when a person “refuses to sign” a traffic citation.
Representative Yasmin Neal, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee the bill “is designed to do a few things: reduce negative encounters…
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