April 6, 2021
The Georgia Department of Public Safety has settled with 26 of the troopers it fired after they were accused of cheating on an exam. All but two of these former troopers were offered their jobs back as part of the …
August 25, 2020
A small Georgia city’s police department wrote more than 130 speeding tickets on a road where it had no jurisdiction, a state agency’s investigation found. Citations issued on Kildare Road over a two year period by police in the city …
July 12, 2019
Public safety officials say there were 26 traffic deaths in Georgia during the holiday travel period surrounding the Fourth of July. The state Department of Public Safety said in a news release Monday that the holiday travel period was 102 …
August 8, 2018
A Georgia agency says more than 900 drivers were cited for violating the state’s new law prohibiting handling cellphones behind the wheel during its first month. Georgia on July 1 joined more than a dozen states that make it illegal …
July 17, 2018
Georgia joins Alabama and three other states in a week-long speed enforcement operation beginning Monday. “Operation Southern Shield” will run through Sunday, July 22. Law enforcement in Georgia and Alabama will join Florida, Tennessee and South Carolina in pulling over …
July 6, 2018
State troopers made over a hundred stops enforcing Georgia’s new hands-free driving law Sunday, the first day the law was in effect. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Tracey Watson told WSB-TV the Georgia State Patrol issued 34 citations and 98 …
June 16, 2015
Georgia will spend $10 million to add officers to the state law-enforcement division focused on watching and inspecting commercial trucks, Gov. Deal announced June 11 along a stretch of interstate where tractor-trailers recently caused a pair of crashes that killed …