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Committee approves amended ban on cockfighting; removes employment carve-out
Summary
Senate Bill 102, which would prohibit cockfighting in Georgia, passed the committee after sponsors removed language that would have carved out certain employment protections; prosecutors and law-enforcement witnesses described links between cockfighting and other criminal activity.
The Senate Public Safety Committee voted to approve a committee substitute for Senate Bill 102, a measure to prohibit cockfighting in Georgia.
Sponsor Senator Robertson told the committee that Georgia is one of the few states without an explicit statutory prohibition and that the bill is intended to give state and local law enforcement the authority to address the activity without relying on federal prosecutions. "It prohibits…
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