Senate Bill 32

SB 32 imposes mandatory minimum sentences for individuals convicted of violently resisting, obstructing, or opposing law enforcement officers. Senate Bill 37 draws a distinction between offering violence against an officer, with a minimum sentence of a year, and doing violence against an officer, with a newly imposed minimum sentence of ten years.

The ACLU of Georgia opposes SB 32 because it will not deter violence against officers and will instead worsen sentencing disparities, remove judicial discretion, and encourage bad-faith plea bargaining.