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Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2025 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated all 7 reviewed misdemeanors as fingerprintable: roadside transfer of dogs, cats, or domestic rabbits (§ 4-11-10.1(b)); operating a drone within 400 feet of a ticketed entertainment e…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2024 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 19 of 28 reviewed misdemeanors as fingerprintable, including six new hemp licensing offenses, the unlawful-squatting offense, wild-animal-enclosure trespass, active facilitation of i…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2023 (and certain prior misdemeanors GCIC flagged) should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 6 of 11 reviewed misdemeanors as fingerprintable: three catalytic-converter offenses (§ 10-1-351(c), (d)(2), (d)(3)) and the new no-cash-payment-for-metal rule (§ 10-1-355(d)) all wi…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2021 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 8 of the 11 reviewed 2021 misdemeanors as fingerprintable: promoting illegal drag racing/laying drags, both forms of non-consensual transmission/posting of nude or sexually explicit …
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2020 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated all three reviewed 2020 misdemeanors as fingerprintable: improper sexual contact by a foster parent in the first degree under § 16-6-5.1(b.1) (Romeo-and-Juliet misdemeanor under § 16…
Should fingerprinting be required for the new high-and-aggravated misdemeanor in Georgia's medical low-THC oil program?
Yes for § 16-12-225(b), the misdemeanor of high and aggravated nature for gross, willful, or wanton negligence by acts or omissions that contribute to or cause endangerment of patients, trafficking of…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2019 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 7 of the 9 reviewed 2019 misdemeanors as fingerprintable: false reports to the Agricultural Commodity Commission for Propane (§ 2-8-218(a)), battery against a sports official (§ 16-5…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2018 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 3 of the 9 reviewed misdemeanors as fingerprintable: knowingly misusing a law enforcement agency's captured license plate reader (ALPR) data under § 35-1-22(d)(1) (a high-and-aggrava…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2017 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated only one of two reviewed 2017 misdemeanors as fingerprintable: providing tobacco to a jail inmate without the jailer's consent under § 42-4-13(d.1), but only as to non-incarcerated o…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2016 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 8 of the 10 reviewed 2016 misdemeanors as fingerprintable: false claims of military veteran status for tangible benefit, deceptive courtroom appearance in a military uniform or with …
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2015 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 9 of the 18 reviewed 2015 misdemeanors as fingerprintable: powdered alcohol, both tiers of harming a law enforcement animal, causing a minor to be identified in an obscene depiction,…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2013 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 13 of the 16 reviewed 2013 misdemeanors as fingerprintable, including unauthorized access to confidential child-abuse records, CASA confidentiality breaches, Parental Notification Ac…
Which of the new misdemeanor crimes the Georgia legislature created in 2012 should require fingerprinting at arrest?
The AG designated 13 of the 16 new 2012 misdemeanors as fingerprintable, including dangerous-dog violations, copper-theft and scrap-metal-recycler offenses, fourth-degree forgery, laser pointing at of…
Which 2011 Georgia misdemeanors did the Attorney General designate as fingerprintable?
Of 15 reviewed offenses, the AG designated 9: transporting/concealing/inducing fewer than 7 illegal aliens (§§ 16-11-200/201/202), prescription data breach (§ 16-13-64(b)), feral hog release (§ 27-2-3…
Did the Attorney General add the workers' compensation fraud and employer non-compliance offenses to the GCIC fingerprintable list?
Yes. The AG designated both O.C.G.A. § 34-9-21 (employee fraudulently receiving workers' compensation income benefits) and O.C.G.A. § 34-9-126 (employer refusal to file workers' compensation complianc…
Which 2010 Georgia misdemeanors did the Attorney General designate as fingerprintable?
Of 21 reviewed offenses, the AG designated 4: carrying weapons in unauthorized locations under § 16-11-127, scanning a driver's license without consent under § 40-5-120(5), causing serious injury thro…
Which 2009 Georgia misdemeanors did the Attorney General designate as fingerprintable?
The AG designated only two of seven offenses: making or accepting false statements to wrongfully obtain Move on When Ready Act payments (§ 20-2-161.3(i)) and unlawful conduct during 911 calls (§ 16-11…
Which 2008 Georgia misdemeanors did the Attorney General designate as fingerprintable for entry in the criminal history database?
The AG designated 11 of 13 reviewed offenses as fingerprintable, including alcohol vaporizing devices, dog-collar removal, retail property fencing, dog-fight spectator presence, sale of marijuana-flav…
Are unlicensed drivers and drivers with suspended licenses fingerprintable in Georgia after the 2008 amendments?
Yes for both. Senate Bill 350 (2008) made fourth-offense violations of O.C.G.A. § 40-5-20 (driving without a valid license) and § 40-5-121 (driving while suspended/revoked) felonies. The AG designated…
Which 2007 Georgia misdemeanors did the Attorney General designate as fingerprintable offenses?
The AG designated only the two notary-fraud offenses (O.C.G.A. § 45-17-20(a) and (b)) as fingerprintable. Four other new 2007 misdemeanors (CASA confidentiality breaches, used-vehicle parking restrict…
Which misdemeanor offenses created in the 2006 Georgia legislative session require fingerprinting at booking, and which don't?
The AG designated 13 of 16 reviewed offenses as fingerprintable: vicious dog violations, assault and battery on an unborn child, disrupting a funeral service, weapons at a nuclear power facility, loit…
Which misdemeanor offenses created in the Georgia 2005 legislative session require fingerprinting at booking, and which don't?
The AG designated 8 of 15 reviewed offenses as fingerprintable: deceptive commercial e-mail (spam), pyramid promotional schemes, two pseudoephedrine sale violations (sale by retail distributor), pseud…
Which misdemeanor offenses enacted by the Georgia legislature in 2004 require fingerprinting at booking and which don't?
The AG designated 12 of the 13 reviewed offenses as fingerprintable: prohibited farmers' market acts, simple assault and simple battery on public school employees, third-degree cruelty to children, fi…
When the Georgia legislature adds a new misdemeanor offense, how do police know whether to take fingerprints from someone arrested for it, and which 2003 misdemeanors did the AG designate as fingerprintable?
Georgia law (O.C.G.A. § 35-3-33(a)(1)(A)(v)) gives the Attorney General authority to designate any offense as fingerprintable beyond the offenses already required by statute. For the 2003 legislative …
Which of the eighteen new misdemeanors created by Georgia's 2002 General Assembly will trigger fingerprinting at booking under Georgia Crime Information Center procedures (after the 2003 update that adds vehicle-registration offenses)?
Twelve of the eighteen are designated fingerprintable. The Attorney General's 2003 update kept all eleven designations from 2002 Op. Att'y Gen. 02-07 and added a twelfth: knowingly driving a vehicle o…
Which of the seventeen new misdemeanors created by Georgia's 2002 General Assembly will trigger fingerprinting of the arrestee under Georgia Crime Information Center procedures?
Eleven of the seventeen are designated fingerprintable; six are not. The Attorney General fingerprinted (1) all five false-identification-document offenses under § 16-9-4(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), and (b…
Which of twelve new misdemeanors created by the Georgia General Assembly in 2001 should be added to the Georgia Crime Information Center's fingerprintable-offense list?
Five. The Georgia AG designated O.C.G.A. § 40-6-397 (aggressive driving), §§ 27-1-3(i) and (j) (unlawful hunting/trapping/fishing and violation of suspension), § 12-3-621 (disturbing archeological sit…
Which of fifteen new misdemeanor offenses created by the Georgia General Assembly in 2000 should be added to the list for which arrestees must be fingerprinted by the Georgia Crime Information Center?
Three. The Georgia AG designated O.C.G.A. § 48-13-60 (innkeeper false or fraudulent excise tax returns), § 50-25-7.9(b) (improper personal purchases through the Georgia Technology Authority), and § 50…
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Attorney general opinions in Georgia are written by the Georgia Attorney General's office in response to questions from state agencies, legislators, and prosecutors. They are not binding like court decisions, but courts and agencies treat them as persuasive guidance on how state law applies. Every opinion above has a plain-English question and short answer, plus a link to the full original text.