Updated: Apr 24, 2022
State Rep. Shelly Hutchinson, D-Snellville, filed legislation this year to have Confederate monuments, as well as statues honoring Confederate soldiers or officials who advocated slavery, banned from public property, but that bill stalled in the Georgia House of Representatives.
Hutchinson is sponsoring legislation to remove from public property all Confederate symbols, including memorials, plaques, markers, or memorabilia, and anything that shows slave owners or "persons adv
In light of recent protests against systemic racism, and outrage resurfacing about Confederate monuments, State Rep. Shelly Hutchinson (D – Snellville) filed House Bill 1212, to prohibit the display o
House Bill 1212 would ban Confederate monuments from public property except in Civil War battlefields and museums. Just one year ago, the Georgia General Assembly passed Senate Bill 77, which made it
