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Last week for early voting in Kennesaw/Marietta area state house race
House District 34 is open after longtime state Rep. Bert Reeves left for a job at Georgia Tech. Author: Jonathan Raymond (11Alive) Updated: 2:00 PM EDT June 5, 2021
KENNESAW, Ga. This week will offer the last chances for early voting in a state House race for a seat that represents much of the area in Cobb County between Marietta and Kennesaw.
Early voting in the special election for the House District 34 seat that was held by longtime Republican state Rep. Bert Reeves will conclude on Friday, June 11. Election day itself is Tuesday, June 15.
A bright light for a new Georgia : Gov. Kemp signs citizen s arrest statute repeal into law Beau Evans
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Gov. Brian Kemp signed legislation Monday overhauling Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law to greatly limit who can detain criminal suspects beyond on-duty police officers.
Enactment of the bill sponsored by former state Rep. Bert Reeves, R-Marietta, and co-sponsored by Savannah-area Rep. Carl Gilliard, D-Garden City, marks the most high-profile bill on criminal justice to clear the 2021 legislative session following last summer’s nationwide protests against police brutality and racial injustice.
It came in response to the killing last year of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man gunned down while jogging near Brunswick during an altercation with three white men who said they believed he had burglarized a home under construction. Father and son Gregory and Travis McMichael, and William “Roddie” Bryan claimed they were making a c
Gov. Kemp scheduled to sign bill repealing Georgia’s citizen’s arrest law
The legislation was one of the top legislative priorities this session in the aftermath of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery
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FILE - In this Dec. 8, 2020, file photo, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to reporters in the Capitol in Atlanta. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File) (Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp is expected to sign Monday a bill repealing the state’s citizen’s arrest law.
Kemp will hold a bill signing ceremony at 2 p.m. at the Georgia State Capitol.
In March, Georgia lawmakers gave final passage to the bill, which was one of the top legislative priorities this session in the aftermath of the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, who would have celebrated his 27th birthday on Saturday.
Kemp sets June 15 elections to replace 2 state House members
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Rep. Bert Reeves, R-Marietta, listens to a question about a bill to repeal citizens arrest during the final day of the 2021 Legislative session Wednesday, March 31, 2021 in Atlanta. (Ben Gray/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)Ben Gray/AP
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has set June 15 special elections to replace two Republican state House members who have resigned.
Greg Morris of Vidalia resigned from District 156, which covers all of Montgomery and Toombs counties and parts of Appling and Jefferson Davis counties after fellow lawmakers elected him to the state Transportation Board. Bert Reeves of Marietta resigned from House District 34, which covers parts of central and northern Cobb County, to go to work for Georgia Tech.