An archaic law prohibiting criminal defamation has been repealed in Georgia, writes Matt J. Duffy, an SPJ Georgia member, and member of SPJGA First Amendment, FOI and Ethics Committee. Georgia removed its criminal libel statutes last month, and although the statute hadn’t been used in decades, this protects journalists from being arrested for exercising free speech. Read more here.

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This entry was posted by Ashley Mayrianne Jones on Thursday, August 6th, 2015 at 3:01 pm and is filed under FOI wins. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.